Old Malton No. 1 / Maaltun / Maltun / Maltune / Meauton / Old Mealton

There are four entries for [Old] Malton [rariant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7972/old-malton/] [accessed 3 December 2019] one of which reports a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list one of three Norman fonts that disappeared from Old Malton: "About the same time [i.e., ca. 1890] 'Three old Church Fonts' were advertised for sale throughout the district on auctioneers' handbills, as part of the garden effects of a resident in Old Malton; the diocesan chancellor (the late Lord Grimthorpe) refused to interfere; all three were of Norman date." The present whereabouts of these three fonts is unknown. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey, [...] and was given, with all its chapels and lands, [...] by Eustace son of John to the Gilbertine Priory he had founded at Old Malton, a donation confirmed by the pope in 1253. [...] The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN consists of a chancel and nave in one range 106 ft. 6 in. by 28 ft. 2 in., formed from the six western bays of the nave of the church of the Gilbertine monastery (the chancel occupying two and the nave four), and a south-west tower 10 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft. 11 in. These measurements are all internal. Nothing remains of the monastic church east of the nave but the lower parts of the west piers of the central tower and portions of the east bay of the south aisle with the cloister door which can be seen to the east of the present church; the undercroft of the frater of the conventual establishment is now incorporated in the basement of a house lying to the south of the church. [...] The church originally had two western towers, but, although the southern one stands in its entirety, only the foundations of the northern one remain." The church interior plan in the VCH (ibid.) shows a font at the west end of the centre aisle. [cf. Index entry for Old Malton No. 4 for a view of the 19th-century font which replaced the three missing Norman vessels, and a modern font of about the same age in a nearby garden].