Allerthorpe / Aluuarestorp

There is a multiple-place entry for Allerthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7844/allerthorpe/] [accessed 23 October 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes "a very fine font" in this church, which is probably the same font that Sheahan & Whellan (1857) describe as ''very ancient''. The present baptismal font at St. Botolph's, however, is in the neo-Perpendicular style and consists of an octagonal basin with a deeply-cut square quatrefoil window on each face, a prominent moulding at the upper rim; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with a graded moulding; the sides of the stem have tall trefoil windows, and the lower base is moulded; the basin inner well is not lined and has a central drain; the flat wooden cover has metal decoration and handle. This font is not the one reported in Lewis ca. 1848 or in Sheahan & Whellan (1857); the present font must be part of the 1876 restoration mentioned in the VCH [cf. infra]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 3, 1976) notes; "The early history of Allerthorpe church is the same as that of Thornton, except that Allerthorpe was not concerned in the confirmation of 1225. The curacy of Allerthorpe was usually held by the vicar of Thornton from the 17th century, and in 1973 the two places still constituted a united vicarage. [...] The original church of ST. BOTOLPH was small, and consisted of chancel and nave with pedi mented bellcot and south porch. [...] It was in decay in 1615. [...] It was rebuilt in 1876"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry.