Silkstone / Silchestone / Silkston

There are two entries for Silkstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2905/silkstone/] [accessed 21 November 2018], each of which reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 11 December 1852 visit to this church, in Butler (2007) reports: "The font is ugly, and not ancient, of octagonal form." This church is described in the National Gazetteer of 1868 as "an ancient structure", at least late medieval, but the present font is a gawdy orange marble basin on a grey base Victorian object probably of the mid-19th century. The wooden cover is a polygonal block sandwiched between circular flat boards, probably Victorian as well. [NB: an earlier font is noted indirectly in the record of a 'Bargain and Sale with Feoffment A/627/F/1/4 13 November 1733', "Parties / 1. John Hallifax of Barnsley, in the County of York, Clockmaker / 2. Elizabeth Kirby of Gawber Hall, in the parish of Darton, in the County of York, Spinster / Property / All that freehold tenement of dwelling house, situate against the church in Silkston, in the County of York, with one garden and one seat or pew, in the said church in Silkston, near into the Font. / Consideration / Thirty pounds", and in another such entry for a 'Lease A/627/F/1/5 6 Aug 1740', for "All that tenement or dwelling house, standing against the church in Silkstone, with one garden and one seat or pew in the said church of Silkstone, near unto the Font" [both entries recorded in the Barnsley Archives and Local Studies, National Archives (UK) [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=196-a627f&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18] [accessed 2 August 2008]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE2908605845] notes: "Church. C12 in origin, remodelled later C15, and completed 1495, chancel rebuilt 1852-8, general C19 restoration"; it mentions no font in it.