Musgrave / Great Musgrave

No entry found in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted in Scott (1899) as one of several instances of fonts having found their way from churches to private grounds [...] during recent years". [NB: was this the font from the old mid-13th century church, replaced by a new one in the mid-19th century restoration?]. Curwen (1932) writes: "The church was appropriated to the abbey of St. Mary of York, but the abbot found that he could not maintain a vicar out of the small revenues of the parish, nor obtain any benefit to the abbey therefrom, so that the church continued to be a rectory. [...] In the "Antique Taxatio Ecclesiastica" of Pope Nicholas IV, made in the year 1291, the church is valued at £13. 6. 8 with a pension to the abbot of York of five shillings. By the "Novo Taxatio" of 1318 the value is reduced to one pound." English Heritage (1936: 179) notes: "Font: octagonal bowl splayed below, stopped octagonal stem and chamfered base, 17th-century or earlier."