Sutton on Hull / Sudtone / Sutton-on-Hull / Sutton in Holderness / Svdtone

There are three entries for this Sutton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA1132/sutton-on-hull/] [accessed 20 July 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's 27 April 1872 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a circular bowl with mail-head round the top, on an octagonal base." Listed in Cox (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. "The font, set on a modern base, dates from about 1200, and probably stood in the old chapel. The nailhead ornamentation round the rim characterises the Early English period. The font was moved here from the small baptistery in 1922, the area formerly being used as a side chapel". [source: based on notes from Merryll Rhodes' book 'Sutton, Branholme & Wawne', in www.rhaywood.karoo.net/st-james/history.htm]. The upper rim of the basin has been repaired, the damage, at opposite ends, consistent with the forceful removal of the staples of the old cover; the basin may have been re-cut; the inner basin is lead-lined; the wodden cover is modern.