Cold Kirby / Carebi / Karebi / Keerby

There is a multiple-place entry for [Cold] Kirby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5384/cold-kirby/] [accessed 5 December 2019]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes that the church here "was entirely rebuilt in 1841, the only trace of the original building being the font, which has a circular 12th-century bowl on a short octagonal stem with a chamfered base. In the upper edge of the bowl are the holes where the staples of the cover were fixed." The VCH entry [ibid.] adds: "Another fragment, a small stoup, is in the possession of the village schoolmaster." Baptismal font of the original 12th-century church; it consists of a plain small hemispherical basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base; the inner well of the basin is lead lined and has a central darin hole. The wooden cover is in the shape of an octagonal chapel or church with tracery windows and a tall pyramidal roof; appears 19th-century. Not noted in Pevsner (1985).