Woolley in Wakefield / Wiluelai

There is an entry for Woolley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3113/woolley/] [accessed 22 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 30 January 1873 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) notes: "The pulpit and the font are new". The Parish web site [http://www.woolleychurch.org.uk/history.htm] [accessed 26 November 2008] informs: "There was also a large plain circular font of the [Romanesque] period which was unfortunately removed at the restoration of the church in 1871", that is, just a couple of years before Glynne's visit. Noted in the Parish web site [http://www.woolleychurch.org.uk/history.htm]: "A small stone church consisting of a short chancel and aisleless nave was in existence in 1158, as a chapel of ease within the parish of Royston [...] There was also a large plain circular font of the same period which was unfortunately removed at the restoration of the church in 1871 [...] a new font erected". But a later development is noted in the 'Treasures Revealed in West Yorkshire' web site: "The Norman font dates from the 11th century, and was reinstated in 1993 having been found in a local Woolley garden. You can see remnants of the iron hoops which were used to secure a lid." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the Victorian font]. The CRSBI (2018) reports a Romanesque font here: "The font is located in the S aisle, W of the doorway. It is thought to be the original font, which had been removed from the church at the restoration in 1871, it was returned in 1993 from a garden in the village (Pearson (1992), 2). The medieval fittings for a lid survive as iron stubs in the rim. The font is made in sandstone, roughly bedded and of uneven grain size. The font is not a pure cylinder, but tapers slightly towards the top. The horizontal under-surface is scored with broad rounded ridges approximately 2-3cm across and irregular, which are probably the result of very rough tooling and subsequent wear. The edges of these ridges can be seen in some photos, and make one think of millstones. Before the modern lead lining was put in, the interior basin was seen to be marked with four runnels leading to an off-centre drainage hole; these runnels are followed by the lead." The West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, holds "papers and photographs re restitution of Norman font 1992" [cf. supra] [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/dfb2bd63-96a1-481d-8030-08348bc4e7f8] [accessed 22 October 2018].