Wilberfoss

No individual entry found for Wilberfoss in the Domesday survey. The entry for Wilferfoss in James Bell's A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales [...] (Glasgow : Fullarton, 1835, vol. 4: 311) mentions "a small wooden font" at the west end of the nave, beneath the gallery. The entry for Wilberfoss in the National Gazetteer of 1868 [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Wilberfoss/Wilberfoss68] [accessed 12 September 2019] reports an antique font in this church. The entry for a house of Benedictine nuns at Wilberfoss in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "It is not evident when, or by whom, the priory of St. Mary Wilberfoss was founded. Leland states [...] that Alan of Catton was the founder [...] Henry II confirmed the gifts to the nuns, as their charters testified, and Henry III in 1227 confirmed several other grants of land fully specified"; the VCH entry includes also in a footnote: "Pope Boniface IX had also granted, on 20 Dec. 1389, a relaxation of penance to penitents who on the feast of the dedication visited and gave alms towards the conservation of the church of the Benedictine priory of Wilberfoss", but there is no information on the house or its church after Dissolution. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 3, 1976) notes: "It was perhaps c. 1150 that Jordan son of Gilbert gave Wilberfoss church and its chapel at Newton upon Derwent, together with 7 bovates of land, to Wilberfoss priory. [...] The gift was confirmed in 1233 [...] and the church was appropriated to the priory [...] The church was presumably served by a chaplain, found by the priory, until the Dissolution. Thereafter the appointment of curates and presentation of vicars descended with Catton manor [...] The north wall of the nave is now windowless and although plastered on both faces may be dated by the stumps of two 12th century buttresses"; no font mentioned in this entry. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE7327250996] notes: "Church. C12 nave, C13 chancel, C14 south aisle, C19 west tower and south porch"; no font mentioned.