Willerby nr. Scarborough No. 2

The August 1882 issue of The Antiquary (p. 83) [http://books.google.ca/books?id=aW2ByXdMKFMC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=gillamoor+church+font&source=web&ots=BZ9hUOLG9v&sig=u8DunbQ37OyYjMM2J57gReIl5JM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA56,M1] [accessed 15 July 2008] informs of the recent [1882] re-opening of the church after ''a thorough renovation''; these works ''brought to light the base of an old font and channels for holy water, and traces also of a Norman buulding were discerned.'' Bulmer's Directiory of 1892 notes: "The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a stone edifice in the Early English style, and was probably erected at the latter end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. The tower appears to have been added or rebuilt two centuries later. The church had originally a north aisle, but this was taken down, as was also the chancel, probably in one of the churchwardian restorations of the last century. The fabric was restored in 1882 [...] During the restoration, the old altar-stone, with its five crosses engraven thereon, symbolical of the five wounds, was discovered under the floor of the nave, and is now in the floor of the sacrarium, under the communion table. The base of the ancient font was found at the same time. It has been ornamented with heads, but these have been mutilated beyond recognition." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Neave (1995). [cf. Index entry for Willerby... No. 1 for the late-Medieval font in this church].