Over Kellet / Chellet / Kelet / Kellet / Kelleth / Lesser Kellet

[Nether and Over] Kellet [variant spelling] have en entry, together with over a dozen other places, in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/nether-and-over-kellet/] [accessed 3 April 2019]; the entry mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "The oldest part of the building is the west arch and pier of the south aisle, which, together with the respond, are of early 13th-century date and transitional in character, [...] but the written evidences do not begin so early, the earliest intimation being in April 1281 [...] The font is a modern stone one and stands at the west end of the south aisle. The old font, which is a circular bowl of gritstone, is now in the garden at Hall Garth." This old font may have been in its own place when, as the VCH notes, "Robert Cock in 1633 desired to be buried 'at the porch door near unto the font.'" The Parish Appraisal of 1996 [http://www.overkellet.org/?Parish_Appraisal_1996:Page_4] [accessed 11 May 2010] notes: "There may have been a Church here by the C10th. The Saxon/Early Norman font retrieved from Hall Garth's garden in 1973, is of that period."