Warter / Warte / Wartre

There are two entries for Warter [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE8650/warter/] [accessed 7 October 2019], one of which, the land of King William, reports a priest and and a church in it. Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892) reports: "the font is octagonal, and rests on a shaft of four clustered pillars" [NB: this same source notes that the "church of St. James was re-built by the late Baron Muncaster in 1862-4", but does not record the font of the earlier church, nor whether or not there was an ancient font in the Augustinian Priory founded "in 1132, and dedicated it to St. James". The entry for the Augustinian priory here in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes; "The priory of Warter was founded in 1132, [...] by Geoffrey Fitz Pain, otherwise Trusbut, who conferred upon it the church of Warter and 6 bovates of land in the fields of that place. [...] There were ten canons at the Dissolution, and the priory and its entire property was granted in 1536-7 to Thomas, Earl of Rutland". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE8699550434] notes: "Church. 1862", without a mention of the earlier church or a font in it. The entry for Warter Priory in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "W. H. St John Hope deduced from a Dissolution survey that the nave of the priory church was retained as the parish church: the survey describes the crossing, transepts and choir in terms of demolition value. The medieval parish church was replaced in 1864 by a new church on the same site. Consequently, the site immediately east of the present church was chosen to be excavated by St John Hope in 1899; he found 6 bays of the eastern end of the priory church. There were two walls 25 feet apart (7.7m) running east and west; a floor of chalk blocks; risers and an altar base. This was of the late 13th century. ‘There was a marked absence of architectural and indeed any other fragments or details, so thoroughly had the place been destroyed and spoiled’ (Hope, 1900, 50)." [NB: the priory appears to have had its own conventual church; the Domesday-time parish church of Warter was donated to the priory early on [cf. supra], therefore there would have been two medieval fonts in Warter: one in the parish church and another in the priory church -- we have no information on either of them].