Ormside / Great Ormside

No entry found in the Domesday survey. Curwen (1932) notes: "The church stands upon the site that has been held sacred from pre-historic times [...] About the year 1087 the Normans took possession and later this little House of God was appropriated to St. Mary's abbey at York. In the year 1248 the abbot and convent granted the advowson to the Bishop of Carlisle and his successors, reserving to themselves the usual pension [...] About the year 1087 the Normans took possession and later this little House of God was appropriated to St. Mary's abbey at York. In the year 1248 the abbot and convent granted the advowson to the Bishop of Carlisle and his successors, reserving to themselves the usual pension out of the same. In the "Antique Taxatio Ecclesiastica" of Pope Nicholas IV made in 1291 the church is valued at £13.6.8 [...] The church was restored in 1885–6 under Charles. J. Ferguson". English Heritage [Listing NGR: NY7014117644] (1984) notes: "Parish Church, dating from late Cll with later alterations and additions. [...] Late C11 door to east partially blocked [...] Font probably C12 on C19 base; square in plan with shallow circular basin and tapered rounding of corners." Baptismal font consisting of a quadrangular basin with tapering sides decorated with rectangular panels; the inner well small, round and shallow, as indicated above; stem of similar shape but smaller; lower base and plinth also quadrangular but modern. Odd-shaped font for the period suggested [cf. supra] and the area.