Danby / Danby Forest / Danebi / Danebia / Daneby in Blakhoumor

There is an entry for Danby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE1587/danby/] [accessed 20 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "Robert de Brus, 'by the counsel of Pope Calixtus II and of Thurstan Archbishop of York,' granted this church to Guisborough Priory [...] The first church on the site was probably of 12thcentury date, but it seems to have been entirely rebuilt during the first half of the 13th century"; the VCH entry reports a modern font in it, but quotes a description of an earlier font in this church in a footnote: " In 1845 the font was 'an elongated, attenuated reproduction of a double eggcup or hour-glass without the sustaining framework' (Atkinson, Moorland parish, 45)." [NB: the font now [2007] found at St Hilda's is modern -- unless the basin has been completely re-tooled, which is unlikely given its size]. The listing for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ6961906309] mentions no font in it.