Normanton nr. Wakefield / Normatune / Normetune

There are two entries for this Normanton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3822/normanton/] [accessed 14 July 2015]; the first entry reports a church with three hides of church lands; the second entry reports a church with one half a hide of church lands. Noted in Morris (1932): "Large octagonal Perp[endicular] font with elaborately carved panels." Mee (1941) has: "The 500-year old font has fine panels of varied tracery". Pevsner (1986 c1967), however, writes: "Font. A very interesting piece, octagonal, with uncommonly dainty carved tracery motifs, wheels with mouchettes or quatrefoils, window-heads, etc. Somehow a pre-Reformation date is not wholly convincing. The crispness is almost like Coade stone" ['coade stone' was a stone-like ceramic finished in a kiln and made from ground stone and clay (?); it was invented in Britain in 18th century and is no longer in use]. Ditto in Harman & Pevsner (2017). The entry for this church in Ryder (1993) mentions "a puzzling font that might be 15th-century" in it. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]