Gilling West / Gellinges / Ghellinges

There is a multiple-place entry [28 places] for Gilling [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ1805/gilling/] [accessed 11 November 2019]; it mentions two churches in it. Glynne's 18 July 1866 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has an Early English circular bowl on a stem surrounded by four shafts having foliaged capitals and moulded bases." The entry for the parish of Gilling in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of ST. AGATHA has developed from an early aisleless nave about 37 ft. by 18 ft. 6 in., with a chancel probably 16 ft. wide and a west tower oblong in plan, measuring 12 ft. by 9 ft. within the walls, its east wall being built beyond and not over the west wall of the nave. Of this building the tower and parts of the nave walls still stand and date, perhaps, from the end of the 11th century." The VCH entry does not mention a font in it, but shows one in the tower space in the interior plan illustration. Noted in Pevsner (1985): "Font. E[arly]. E[nglish]. Of cauldron shape, on five supports, the angle colonnettes with stiff-leaf." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ1820005153] notes: "Church. Late C11, early C14, late C14, late C15, restoration and additions 1845 [...] In tower, font with circular basin set on 4 shafts with waterleaf capitals. "