Knottingley / Notingeleia

There is an entry for Nottingley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5024/knottingley/] [accessed 30 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Parish site [www.stbotolphsknottingley.org.uk/history/] [accessed 30 October 2018] notes: "The earliest reference to a Church in Knottingley was a document dated between 1119-1121 which confirmed a grant by Robert de Lacy to the Prior and Monks of Pontefract, a number of items including the chapel of Knottingley. Between 1750 and 1756 rebuilding of the Norman chapel took place"; no font is mentioned in it. This same site illustrates the modern font in use, a rather garish combination of an octagonal basin on marble colums located at the west end of the nave; the date '1887' is painted on the plinth side. Ryder (1993) mentions a 12th-century blocked window visible only from the inside. Harman & Pevsner (2017) report a font of 1887 here, as well.