Appleby / Aplebi

There are three entries for this Appleby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE9414/appleby/] [accessed 28 July 2014], two of which report a priest and a church in each. A font here is noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Norman, drum-shaped, with intersecting arches." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12556] [accessed 28 July 2021]: "Located in the S aisle at the W end of the nave. The font is made of white colored stone and is drum-shaped. Base is post-medieval. The face of the drum carries a motif of intersecting arcades. The arcades are formed by twelve semicircular half-columns on plinths and simple bases. The columns carry plain block capitals with both the necking and the impost delineated; from the capitals spring unadorned intersecting arches. The upper rim of the font is not decorated; four sections of the rim are inserted repairs including a 0.283 m. long segment on the W side that encompasses the top portion of the intersecting arches. A fifth section of the rim, on the E side, appears to be a reset original fragment. The interior of the bowl is lead-lined with a center drainage hole in the bottom. There is a large crack running down the W side of the font [...] Though the details are less ornate, intersecting arcades of this font are similar to the fonts at Benniworth, St. Julian, and at West Torrington, All Saints." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE9531215066] notes: "Romanesque drum font with blind arcading of intersecting round arches on round piers; C19 base." The lower base on which it now stands appears modern, probably of the 1821-1823 restoration of the building.