Sheriff Hutton / Hoton Viscount / Hotone / Hotonscireve / Hotun / Schyrrevehoton / Sherefwoton / Sheriffhutton / Shirrefhoton / Shirrevehoton / Shyreveton / Shyryfhouton

There are two entries [one is multiple-place] for [Sheriff] Hutton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6566/sheriff-hutton/] [accessed 13 December 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Glynne's 1 May 1872 visit to this church, in Butler (2007) reports: "The font has a circular bowl on octagonal stem." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The 12th-century church was a small aisleless building with a western tower, and of this there remain the lower part of the tower and portions of the east and west ends of the nave, which was the same size as that now existing. [...] The church, dedicated in and probably before 1375 in the honour of St. Mary, (fn. 273) but from 1443 in the honour of St. Helen or St. Cross, and more recently St. Helen and the Holy Cross [...] The font has an octagonal bowl resting on a circular shaft and is probably of 13th-century date." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6574266283] notes: "Church. C12 nave and lower part of tower, C13 chancel with substantial rebuilding in C15, C14 aisles, C15 chapels, vestry and upper part of tower, early C16 clerestory, late C18 porch"; no font mentioned in it. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base and a decagonal lower base. The font appears to be made of sandstone and is very weathered, probably though exposure outside.