Lastingham No. 2 / Laisingham / Lassyngham / Lastingeau / Laystyngham / Lestingan / Lestingeham

Described and illustrated in Cox & Harvey (1907): polygonal holy-water stoup "which doubtless originally stood on brackets or pedestals", decorated on alternative sides with nail-head-in-a-square (top and bottom) and double scroll motifs. The inner well is round. 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." [cf. Index entry for Lastingham No. 1 for a medieval baptismal font in this church]