Egglestone Abbey / Eghistun

There is an entry for multiple places, over two dozen, including Egglestone [Abbey] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ0615/egglestone-abbey/] [accessed 9 October 2019]; it reports two churches in it. Whitaker (1823) mentions the remains of the Premonstratensian abbey here, of which the church has survived, but the only mention of a 'font' is in reference to Rokeby. The entry for the Premonstratensian Abbey of St. John the Baptist here in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "Documentary and structural evidence points to the years 1195 to 1198 as a probable date [...] The first document relating to Egglestone is a fine, dated 1198 [...] The abbey was exempted at the suppression of 1535 and re-founded in 1537, but finally surrendered in 1540." The entry for the abbey ruins in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ0624715099] notes: "Ruins of Premonstratensian Abbey. Church and cloister first built 1195-1225; presbytery rebuilt c.1250; nave widened to south, south transept rebuilt and west range constructed 1275-1300; cloister ranges converted to house in mid- C16. [...] Church in Transitional, Early English and Decorated styles. [...] The church's offset position is due to its being rebuilt in the mid and late 13th century. The original church, constructed soon after the abbey's foundation in the late 12th century, was a much smaller building whose east end roughly aligned with the other buildings in the east range. From the mid-13th century, there began a programme of rebuilding which included the reconstruction of the presbytery, at the east end of the church, and transepts, the widening of the nave and the addition of a south aisle, and, in the late 15th century, the alteration of the roof."