Mexborough / Mechesburg

There is an entry for Mexborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4700/mexborough/] [accessed 16 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Hunter (1828-1831) writes: "The large octagonal font is doubtless […] a relic of the original church". In Moule (1837). Noted in Glynne's 16 April 1853 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl and some rope moulding." Armitage (1905) writes: "I was informed that the old font was buried inside the tower; I do not know what it had been doing to deserve this." Noted in Mee (1941) as a medieval relic "recovered after being buried". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK4797299741] notes: "Church. C12 core, otherwise C13, C14 and C15; aisle rebuilt and apse added 1891. [...] Medieval, octagonal font. Remains of C10-Cll cross in south aisle." In Harman & Pevsner (2017): "Dumpty octagon. C14?" The CRSBI (2018) notes, citing Clay (C. T. Clay, 'York Minster Fasti I', Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series (123), Leeds, 1958, 57-8.): "the church was founded by the Saxon family of Ailric, and post Conquest was in two parts, one given by Montbegon to the house of Bretton (Monk Bretton), and the other to St Nicholas at Pontefact by Swein, which subsequently came to Nostell priory. Later in the 13th century both halves were transferred to the archdeaconry of York. The two parts of the church were disputed between the archdeacon of York and Monk Bretton priory in 1262 and both confirmed to the archdeacon (Clay 1958, 57-8)." The CRSBI entry (ibid.) also notes: "Font, octagonal bowl and some rope moulding", but gives no date for the font.