Carnaby / Cherendebi

The entry for this village in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1465/carnaby/] [accessed 17 February 2025] mentions neither priest nor church in it. Noted and illustrated in Prickett (1831): "The font is ancient and curiously ornamented." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a diapered font with "a very rich effect being produced by the insertion of small crosses or other figures and emblems within the trellis pattern". This same source (ibid.) mentions that the fonts at Nafferton, Bainton, Barmston, Carnaby and Weaverthorpe, all in the East Riding of Yorkshire, have similar ornamentation. The font, which rest directly on the ground, is perfectly cylindrical, the sides decorated with a few large romboid frames all around, the tips of which reach the upper and lower rims; inside each one of these romboid frames are two floral motifs at the centre and the rest of the shape up and down is filled with chevron pattern; a rope motif is carved around th upper rim, and the inner surface is recessed slightly to accommodate a flat wooden lid with a little cross finial; the inside well is lined with lead.