Oswaldkirk / Oswaldescherca / Oswaldeschercha

There are two entries for Oswaldkirk [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6278/oswaldkirk/] [accessed 3 December 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The nave appears to be of late 12th-century date, but the only detail now surviving of this period is the north doorway, now built up, a small narrow roundarched window immediately to the westward of it and two capitals built into the jambs of the south doorway, rebuilt in the 16th century"; no font mentioned in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6208578922] notes: "Church. C12 nave with late C13 insertions and 1886 restoration including substantial rebuilding of chancel"; no font mentioned in it. The baptismal font in the church of St. Oswald is modern, probably of the 19th century; it consists of an octagonal basin raised on a columnar base, quadrangular lower base and rectangular plinth with chamfered front angles; the basin is plain except for two grooves at the upper and lower rims; the base has four attached colonnettes with moulded bases; the inner well of the basin is round and lined, and has a central drain; the cover is plain, modern as well. [The original church of St. Oswald may go back as early as the 10th century as witnessed by the fragments of hogback tombs still kept in the church, but we have no record of the earlier font[s] of this church].