Kendal / Cherchebi / Kendale / Kirkby in Kendal / Kirkby Kendal

There is a multiple-place entry for Kendal [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD5192/kendal/] [accessed 5 February 2020]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Whitaker (1823) notes that this parish "had originally two rectors, but in the year 1252 the two medieties were consolidated"; he further notes that one of the five aisles of the church, the central one, "occupies the site of the original, Saxon church", the other four aisles being of later periods"; no font mentioned in it. Scott (1899) quotes from a 29 June 1683 entry in the churchwardens' account book, which details the chores assigned to female saxton Debora Wilkinson, among which is "to keepe the font w[i]th faire water, changeing itt every fforthnight or as often as the Vicar pleaseth". Noted in Pevsner (1967): "Font. Large octagonal bowl of black marble with concave sides and plain shields. A type which recurs in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the late C15."