Leven / Leaven / Leuene

There is an entry for this Leven [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1045/leven/] [accessed 5 November 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) note: ''The square font of granite is ancient''. Described in Bulmer's Directory... of East Yorkshire (1892): "The square font from the old church rest on five cylindrical shafts, and is ornamented with two trefoil-headed arches on each side". This was the font from the now disappeared parish church of Leven, dedicated to St. Faith, that had existed about a mile from the village. The new church was built in the vilage and was consecrated in 1845 with a dedication to the Holy Trinity. [Bulmer's reference as transcribed in www.budd.karoo.net/bulmers2.html]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) notes: "Leven church was recorded as part of the estate of St. John's church, Beverley [...] The medieval church stood 2 km. from the middle of the present village. It was dedicated in 1538 to ST. ZITA (Scytha), a saint popularly associated with rivers and bridges, [...] but ST. FAITH seems to have been an alternative dedicatee. [...] in 1844 most of the decayed church was demolished. The chancel was left and used for burial services until the churchyard was closed in 1876; it was pulled down in 1883. [...] he new church of HOLY TRINITY was built in 1843-4 on land in the centre of the village [...] The new church contains part of a 9thcentury cross shaft, [...] a late 13th-century font, [...] and the head of a 15th-century cross from St. Faith's churchyard." The entry for the new church here in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA1065745232] notes: "Church. 1843-44 by R D Chantrell. [...] Re-used square C13 font on central cylindrical pier and 4 colonettes: the tub is decorated with paired trefoil-headed blank arches with foliage to spandrels on 3 sides, and with a composition of central trefoil headed blank arch to centre flanked by blank lancets, all with foliage to spandrels."