Ferry Fryston / Fereia

There is an entry for Ferry [Fryston] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4824/ferry-fryston/] accessed 26 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Morris (1932) lists this as one of two fonts [the other at Penistone] in this county "the carving on which is only partly completed", this one, massive circular font -- probably coeval with the original building" [i.e., Transitional]. [NB: according to the National Gazetteer of 1868, the original church dates from the early 11th century [source: 2003 transcription by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk]]. Pevsner (1986 c1967), who mentions the move of the church [Old St Andrew's church was moved stone by stone from Ferry Fryston to Ferrybridge and re-consecrated on 12 September 1953 -- source: St Andrew's Parish web site [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ferrybridge]], writes: "Font. Circular, reeded bowl. Is it Norman? It is hard to suggest a date." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "The font is now in the tower space standing on a large modern octagonal peninsula. It is of three sections, base, pillar and bowl. The base has a double torus in a fine sandstone that is beginning to decay - it has all the appearance of a restoration. The stem is a plain squat cylinder, probably limestone, in two halves, like courses in some pillars. The limestone bowl has a ring at the junction with the pillar, then a chamfer with a rounded angle, after which it is vertical and cylindrical to the top. The flat rim has been repaired where the medieval lock and clasp were inset. The surface has been generally worked over with a claw. The pattern on the bowl consists of incised ‘vertical’ grooves. These grooves end near the bottom of the chamfer in a bored hole, very like those commonly seen on waterleaf capitals, for example in Selby Abbey N porch, and just identifiable on the N doorway here. Sometimes the grooves join as they rise up the chamfer, making a form like the dart on a scallop capital. Perhaps it should properly have been reeded. Both the stem and the bowl could be Romanesque." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4803624150] notes: "Church. C12 and c.1500; restored in C19 and removed to this site with alterations, 1952-3 [...] tub font with reeded decoration to the side (perhaps C12)". In Harman & Pevsner (2017) as "probably C12".