North Ferriby No. 1 / Ferebi / Ferest

There are two entries for [North] Ferriby in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE9826/north-ferriby/] [accessed 7 October 2019]; the second entry, which includes eight places, mentions a priest and a church in it. Hall (1892) reports: "There is an elegant modern font, the gift of the late Edward Smith, Esq.; it is octagonal, the stem being surrounded by eight polished granite columns, and round the rim is an appropriate verse of scripture." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE9889825784] notes: "Church. 1845-8. [...] Octagonal font with sunk quatrefoils and shields with religious emblems and floral bosses." The font consists of an octagonal basin rendered roughly in the style of the traditional Perpendicular fonts, the sides decorated with quatrefoil windows containing charged shields, roses, etc.; the underbowl chamfer has human heads at the angles and foliage on the panels; raised on a broad central shaft and eight outer colonnettes, the latter, in the Victorian manner, with stems done in polished coloured stone; octagonal-to-square lower base; quadrangular plinth. Stylised 19th century wooden font cover. [NB: this font corresponds to the rebuilding of the church in 1849 -- the old church dated to at least the 14th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) from that church].