Skelton nr. York / Scilton

There is an entry for this Skelton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE7625/skelton/] [accessed 1 August 2014]; it reports a priest and a church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's 4 February 1834 visit to this church, in Butler (2007): "The font is a small octagon of Early English character, but very plain, and the sides sloped off to meet the shaft." Illustrated in Fawcett (1844) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font; the vertical sides of the basin are plain and very shallow; the underbowl has a tall chamfer; the pedestal base is also octagonal and plain; the font has a very short octagonal lower base and an equally short round plinth. Noted in Pevsner (1985): "Font. Oddly faceted octagonal bowl. What date is it?" English Heritage [Listing NGR: SE5684956555] (1986) notes: "Church. c1240 with restorations of 1814-18 by Henry Graham and 1863 by Ewan Christian. [...] Contemporary font with facetted decoration."