Kildale No. 2 / Childale

There is an entry for Kildale [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ6009/kildale/] [accessed 17 December 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "There was a church with a priest at Kildale in the 11th century [...] The church of ST. CUTHBERT was entirely rebuilt in 1868 [...] Two preConquest stones have also been found, one the end of a cross arm and the other an incised cross, perhaps part of a grave slab, [...] as well as fragments of coped gravestones with rectilinear patterns which may belong to the same period, but are possibly postConquest. [...] Some old stones apparently of 12th-century date are built up into the walls of the porch outside, and in the churchyard is an ancient circular font, with raised vertical bands on the bowl." Morris (1931) wrote: "In the churchyard is an old circular font." Pevsner (1985) notes: "Font. Goblet-shaped, with slight flutes. Is it Norman?". It is likely that Morris saw the large tub-shaped font in the churchyard ca. 1931, whereas Pevsner was noted ca. 1965 only the smaller hemispherical mounted inside the church. Both fonts are inside the church now [April 2007]. The font now in use is the one mentioned by Pevsner [cf. supra]: it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin the sides of which hava the pattern mentioned above, almost like an attempt at thin ribbing; the cylindrical stem and round lower base are totally plain; the base may be of a later date, perhaps modern. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; it appears modern. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font]