Kirby Knowle No. 1 / Chirchebi / Kirkby Knowle / Kirkeby Undercnol

There is an entry for Kirby [Knowle] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE4687/kirby-knowle/] [accessed 5 December 2014]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Bulmer's Directory... (1890: 737) informs that several objects, among them an early holy-water stoup probably from the original church [i.e., 12th or 13th century], "were discovered during the work of rebuilding in 1873". The entry for this church in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The whole building was erected in 1873–4 on an ancient site, little of the former church being left except one or two stones in different places. The oldest of these are two over the entrance to the south porch, which are carved with early 12th-century interlacing work. [...] In the churchyard are some more old stones, including the head and stump of a pre-Conquest cross, an old stone coffin, a stoup and what appears to be the head of a 12th-century window. There is also a font of much later date, probably of the 17th century, with a circular bowl and a stem of the same form with a moulded capital and base." [cf. Index entry for Kirby Knowle No. 2 for the basin of a baptismal font in the churchyard, the base inside the church]