Kirkby Wharfe / Chirchebi / Kirkby Wharf

There is an entry for Kirkby [Wharfe] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5041/kirkby-wharfe/] [accessed 14 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis (1848) informs: "The church is an ancient structure, in the early Norman style, with a tower of later date". Noted in Morris (1932): "Plain, circular, Norm[an] font." Mee (1941) notes a Norman font in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5060841071] notes; "Church. Late C12, with C13 and C14 additions and alterations, and extensive rebuilding to exterior of 1860 for Lord Londesborough. [...] Norman tub font." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) reports "There are three in the church, two of which are Norman." [NB: access to this source blocked at this time 14 November 2018]. The baptismal font in use currently at St. John's is not the Norman one but a 19th-century replacement: it consists of a aquare-top basin with deepply-carved trefoil archeads in the style of the 13th- and 14th-century fonts; raised on a broad central shaft and four slender colonnettes, the latter in the usual coloured marble favoured by the Victorians. The wooden font cover is round and flat, decorated with metal and provided with a ring handle. The 19th-century font has an inscription done on a brass plate that runs along the four sides of the upper surface of the basin; it reads: "IN PIAM MEMORIAM JOANNIS / SHILLETO DE VLLESKELF ARMIGERI / HOC LAVACRVM POSVERVNT SVPERSTITES / [...] MDCCCLVII"] Harman & Pevsner (2017) note: "Font.(old) Plain cylinder, Norman."