Carlton-in-Lindrick / Careltune / Caretone / Carletone / South Carlton (Notts.)

There are two entries for Carlton [-in-Lindrick] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK5883/carlton-in-lindrick/] [accessed 7 January 2019] one of which reports a church in it. Cox (1912) writes: "Large Norm[an] bowl of font stands out in centre [of the nave], and has lower band of scalloped work." Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): Plain, early Norman." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5882683900] notes: "Church. Pagan, C7, Cll, C12, mid C12, late C12, c.1190, C14, c.1425, C15, C19, 1831. Restorations took place 1831, c.1936 and 1967. [...] The Cll tower was diagonally buttressed between 1417 and 1443, given a south west staircase and topped with an embattled belfry with 8 crocketted pinnacles and single central gargoyle to each side. The Cll part is in 4 stages marked respectively from the base by coursed rubble, roughly dressed rectangular blocks, herringbone and coursed rubble interspersed with herringbone. There are 2 string courses, one square in section, the 2nd at the junction of the Cll and C15 stages is C15. The west mid C12 doorway was moved here from the south in 1831. [...] The font is C12." Baptismal font consisting of a tub-shaped basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim, and a thin groove below and parllel to it; the same arrangement, nut in reverse, decorate the lower rim, but the moulding is much thinner here; it is raised on a broad cylindrical stem and a moulded lower base that may be modern. There is damage to one of the sides of the upper rim. The wooden cover is round and flat, decorated with metal scrolls.