Hornby nr. Bedale No. 1 / Hornebi

No individual entry for this Hornby found in the Domesday survey. Glynne's 16 April 1869 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reported "a modern font" in it. Butler's (bid.) annotation reads: "The font dates from 1783". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The earliest part of the church is the tower, which dates from about 1080 and was evidently attached to a small church consisting of a chancel and nave. This chancel and nave were rebuilt about 1170–80 and a north aisle added. About 1330 the north aisle was widened. [...] The font is ten-sided and is elaborately carved in the Decorated style. It is inscribed 'The gift of Mary Countess Dowager of Holdernesse 1783.'" In Pevsner (1985): "Font. Given in 1783. A delightfulli crisp imitation-Dec[orated] job with steep little gables and flowing tracery inside them." The entry for this church in A Church Near You [www.achurchnearyou.com/church/3226/find-us/] [accessed 25 February 2019] notes: "St. Mary's was rebuilt on the site of an earlier Saxon church began about 14 years after the Norman Conquest, around 1080. The oldest parts of the church are the tower and the dog-toothed arches of the North Nave. The lower stages of the tower show a combination of Saxon and Norman styles, the Saxon influence being most notable in the third stage, the original belfry." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE2224393752] notes: "Church. c1080, C12, c1330, c1410, late C15, C16, 1877. Work of c1410 by Richard Mason of Newton for John Conyers of Hornby; 1877 work by J L Pearson [...] C12 oval font on circular stem" at the east end of the south aisle; the entry further reports a modern font: "Lead-lined octagonal font with crocketed canopies on each side, hollow-chamfered stem and base with inscription that it was the gift of Mary, Countess of Holderness, 1783." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font[s] of this church which goes back to the 11th century]