Wheldrake / Coldrid

There is an entry for Wheldrake [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6844/wheldrake/] [accessed 9 September 2019]; it reports a church in it. There is no font mentioned in Glynne's 14 March 1825 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007), but Butler's (ibid.) added footnote reads: "The font is c. 1300". The Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 3, 1976) notes: "There was a church at Wheldrake in 1086"; reporting on the changes made during a 19th-century renovation, it adds: "Other changes in 1873 included the removal of a west gallery and the provision of new seating, floors, and font". The same VCH source adds that: "An octagonal font of c. 1300 was restored to the church in 1974". Reported in the 'A Church Near You' site [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/wheldrake-st-helen/] [accessed 26 November 2008]: "The medieval (?1300) font was replaced by one of a slender Georgian style, which is now in the garden of the nursing home next door. For two hundred years the medieval font was a pump trough for a cottage in Main Street […] The Georgian font was removed and was replaced by the present one." In Pevsner & Neave (1995): "Font. Octagonal of c. 1300." On-site notes: the font being used at present [January 2009] is a of the octagonal mounted type, modern; one (?) of the sides of the basin bears the IHS emblem; the lower base is moulded and octagonal. The plinth is quadrangular, the top decorated with tiles. Kept in a corner of the nave is the old octagonal tub; it has a rounded inner well and is much damaged at the top sides. It is now disused [NB: we have no up-to-date information on the Georgian font reported earlier in the churchyard]