Hunmanby / Humanby / Hundemanebi

There are two entries for Hunmanby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [Gilbert of Ghent. ] [accessed 17 February 2025]; the one in the lordship of Gilbert of Ghent in 1086 reports a priest and a church in it. Noted in Glynne's 12 August 1827 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a the west and, and raised on steps; it is a plain cylinder on a square base" [NB: Butler's (ibid.) annotation accounts for the introduction of a new font by the "extensice restoration in 1844-5 by George Gilbert Scott", but does not mention the whereabouts of the old font]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Bond (1908: 284) informs that the metal staples of the cover are still on it. Only a fragment of this old basin remains now [July 2004] standing on its side against the north wall of the nave: it was originally a cylindrical basin with a notched inner rim at the top to accommodate the font cover; the well is also cylindrical with a flat bottom and a central drain. The modern baptismal font now in use at this church is an octagonal mounted object in the Perpendicular style, the basin sides decorated with quatrefoil windows, an underbowl with a graded chamfer, and a moulded base. The octagonal oak cover appears of the same period [NB: this font is not listed in this Index on account of its late date].