Whitwell-on-the-Hill / Whitwell on the Hill / Witeuella / Witevella

There is an entry for Whitwell [on the Hill] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE7265/whitwell-on-the-hill/] [accessed 12 May 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Whellan (1859) informs of a new church being built at the time at Whitwell "at the sole expense of Lady Lechmere [...] The building is of Gothic design, from the pencil of G. E. Street, Esq., architect [...] the pulpit and font will be of stone". The font is indeed of stone, a cylindrical basin with a row of lively coloured stone lozenges on a moulding around the upper basin side, four hexafoil-in-a-circle windows at 90-degree angles, also of coloured stones, on the sides; raised on five supports -centre shaft and four angle colonnettes- with capitals and bases, on a square lower base. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. Both font and cover probably of the date of the church itself, ca. 1858. [NB: we found no record of an earlier church here].