Hartlepool / Hartinpooell / Herterpol / Hertilpol / Hertlepole / Hertylpull / Hiartapoll

Noted in Mackenzie (1834): "The font is an elegant bason of Yorkshire marble, 'the gift of George Bowes, Esq., 1728'". Billings (1846) reports "a font of late date, which, though it is richly sculptured, has little to recommend it as a work of art." The Victoria County History (Durham, vol. 3, 1928) notes: "With the exception of an earlier south doorway, the church was erected about 1189 to 1215, and completed probably in 1237. [...] The earlier building, to which the south doorway belonged, was probably the first church on the present site, and may have been erected during the lifetime of Robert Brus I, the founder of Guisborough Priory, who died in 1141. [...] The font was 'the gift of Geo. Bowes, Esq., 1728,' and consists of a circular scalloped marble basin and shaft, with contemporary wooden cover." In Pevsner (1983): "Font. Of baluster type; 1728." [NB: we have no information on a possible earlier font in this church, formerly a chapel, which existed already in 1195 -- the churches of St. Andrew and Holy Trinity are both 19th-century].