Tunstall nr. Kirkby Lonsdale / Tunestalle

There is an entry for Tunstall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SD6073/tunstall/] [accessed 14 May 2014]; it includes six places and reports three churches in it. Whitaker (1823) writes of a church that replaced and earlier ones of which nothing remains; the font in the later church is "of white marble", and presumably modern. The present font here is noted in Pevsner (1969): "Font. C18 stone baluster with an eliptical marble baluster." Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) corrects the details: "An C18 marble bowl on a C19 baluster stem and pedestal." Illustrated in the Lancashire Churches web site [www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/tunstall.htm] [accessed 18 September 2006]. The roughly hemispherical basin has the usual ribbed sides, and a torus-scotia combination at the upper rim. [NB: three churches in Tunstall are recorded in the Domesday book, but we have no information on their fonts].