Kirkby Ravensworth / Kirkby on the Hill / Kirby Hill / Rasueswaht / Rauenesuuet [Donesday] / Raveneswade / Raveneswet / Ravenswath

There is an entry for Ravensworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ1407/ravensworth/] [accessed 12 November 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for Kirkby Ravensworth in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1835 notes: "The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Felix, is a handsome edifice, built, in 1397, on the supposed site of a more ancient one erected by the Saxons." Glynne's 18 July 1866 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has a circular bowl, on base with several mouldings." Noted in Wilson's Gazetteer (1870-1872) simply as "an ancient font". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914 ) notes: "The oldest building on the site of which any traces now remain [...] was probably of early 12th-century date, and the chancel which was attached to it was replaced c. 1180 by that which still stands, though a good deal altered in the end of the 13th century. [...] The font is probably an 18th-century reshaping of an old bowl. It has no stem, but rests directly on a moulded base" [NB: the VCH (ibid.) shows a plan of the interior with the font located in the west end of the nave, by the south doorway]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ1403406603] notes: "Church. C12, C13, C14, C15 and C19. [...] Near the south door is the font, a circular bowl on a moulded base." Baptismal font consisting of a large cauldron-shaped basin plain but for a double roll moulding at the upper rim, raisd on a round base decorated with graded mouldings; the inner well of the basin is lined and has a central drain hole; flat wooden cover, probably modern.