Lastingham No. 1 / Laisingham / Lassyngham / Lastingeau / Laystyngham / Lestingan / Lestingeham

There is an entry for Lastingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7290/lastingham/] [accessed 3 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 21 April 1842 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is circular with mouldings around the base. Upon a cylindrical shaft." Bulmer's Directory for 1890 notes: "the font is very ancient, probably Saxon". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The history of the building is of peculiar interest, the remains of the monastery built by Stephen, monk of Whitby and first Abbot of St. Mary's, York, forming the nucleus of the present church, which appears to have been converted into the form it now takes early in the 13th century. [...] The stone church built in Lastingham Monastery in honour of the Virgin Mary about the end of the 7th century was no doubt destroyed with the monastery. A fresh church was erected by Stephen of Whitby about 1078. [...] The crypt of the present building, which was built under the apse and the presbytery of the monastic church, is entirely the work of Stephen and must have been commenced immediately upon his arrival in 1078. [...] The font is circular and of late 12th-century date. Against the west wall of the south aisle is a 15th-century holy water stoup." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE7280990455] notes; "Church. Founded in 1078 as the church of a Benedictine monastery by Stephen of Whitby. Became parochial in 1228 when the unfinished fabric of the original church was adapted and incorporated into the new church. Crypt, chancel and apse date from 1078-85; early C13 west wall and nave arcades incorporate crossing piers from the originally-planned cruciform church with crossing tower and transepts; C14 tower; porch largely of 1879. Some restoration of 1828 by John Jackson; clerestory and vault of 1879"; no font mentioned in it. Plain cylindrical mounted baptismal font. It appears so plain that it may have been re-cut. Wooden font cover with metal reinforcements; modern. [cf. Index entry for Lastingham No. 2 for a medieval (?) holy-water stoup in this church]