Old Malton No. 2 / 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. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 229) as the second 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 are unknown. [cf. Index entry for Old Malton No. 4 for a view of the 19th-century font which replaced the three missing Norman vessels]