Stonegrave / Stanegrif / Stangreve / Stayngref / Steinegrif / Steingreve / Steingrive

There are two entries [one is multiple-place] for Stonegrave [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6577/stonegrave/] [accessed 4 December 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 19 November 1863 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has a square bowl, and is new, of Norman character" [NB: the font was probably part of the renovation and refurnishing of this church in 1861-1863, just before Glynne's visit]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The original nave appears to date from the latter half of the 11th century. About the middle of the 12th century the north arcade was opened in the north wall and a north aisle added [...] underbuilt in an older wall"; no font mentioned in it. Stocker (1997) includes Stonegrave church as an instance of "deep burial" in his listing of "font bowls reportedly discovered under church floors and set beneath successors." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6557077880] notes: "Church. Nave of Saxon origins, early C12 tower, mid C12 arcade, C15 upper stage to tower, and substantial restoration and rebuilding of external walls and chancel, 1863"; no font mentioned in it. The entry for this church in the CRBSI (2019) notes: "It is known that a religious building, in the form of a minster, was in existence on this site as early as the 8thc, through correspondence in 757 between Pope Paul I and Eadberht, King of Northumberland, concerning the appointment of an abbot. The church has also preserved several 10thc carvings of considerable quality, indicating its continuing importance." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the buried early font]