Market Weighton / Wicstun / Wicstvn

There is an entry for Market Weighton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8741/market-weighton/] [accessed 20 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Bulmer's Directory of 1892 states: "The church (All Saints) was founded in Saxon times, but no part of the present building is older than the Norman era." Noted in Hobson (1924): "The font is Norm[an]." There is probably no reason to question Hobson's dating, as the circular tub-shaped font is totally plain, and in the general shape of such fonts of the Norman period; the inner well of the basin is lined with lead and has a central drain; damage to the upper rim sides is probably due to the forceful removal of the iron staples of the old cover. The flat round wooden cover now on the font is modern. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font]