Stainton nr. Thornton / Esteintona / Stainton-in-Cleveland / Staynton / Steintun

There are two entries for this Stainton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/NZ4814/stainton/] [accessed 26 November 2018] one of which mentions a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 29 January 1869 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has an octagonal bowl, panneled." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York, North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The building has but little ancient work to show, the chancel arch, which is of 13th-century date, being the oldest part. The tower belongs to the 15th century, and the transept is old and may belong to the same period. (fn. 225) The chancel was completely rebuilt in the style of the 13th century in 1876, and the nave walls appear to have been rebuilt on the old foundations in the 18th or early 19th century [...] Three pre-Conquest stones have been found in the course of repairs, and are now built into the north wall of the chancel outside. [...] The font and pulpit are both of Caen stone, the former dating from 1897 and the latter from 1907." Mee (1941) notes a 15th-century font in this church. The Stokesley Deanery site [www.stokesleydeanery.org.uk/Parishes/Stainton2.htm] [accessed 26 November 2018] notes: "10th Century. There are two Cross fragments and one with an example of Celtic knot work. While outside at the south-eastern corner of the church there is a Saxon stone coffin. -- 12th Century. Between 1110 and 1120, Robert de Brus gave the church at Stainton to the Prior and Convent of Guisborough . Whether this was a pre-conquest timber church or an early Norman stone structure is not known [NB: there is no mention of a font in their history page]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ4804314050] [accessed 26 November 2018] notes: "Church, C13, with C15 tower and north transept; nave largely rebuilt c.1800 and altered 1897. Chancel rebuilt 1876; late C19 vestry. Restored and roofs renewed 1902. [...] Several fragments of medieval and Saxon carved stones, and 2 trefoil-headed windows, under hoodmoulds with masks stops, in north wall. [...] 1907 Caen stone pulpit, on marble shafts,and similar carved painted octagonal font." [NB: the original church goes back to Saxon or early-Norman times; we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]