Beeford / Biuuorde / Bivvorde

There is a multiple-place entry for Beeford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1254/beeford/] [accessed 1 November 2019]; it reports a priest, a church and 1.0 church lands in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) notes: "There was a church with a priest at Beeford in 1086. [...] The church of ST. LEONARD, so called by 1407 [...] There is little evidence of the 11th century building. The chancel was enlarged in the 13th century [...] octagonal font, probably 15th-century". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA1290454379] notes: "Church. C13 with possible earlier origins, C15 aisles and south porch, C15 west tower, C19 vestry [...] C15 octagonal font on octagonal pier with moulded cap and hollow-chamfered base." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides raised on an octagonal stem and lower base, all of it on an octagonal plinth with priest's stone; the only visible decoration is a moulding around the upper end of the stem, the lower base being slightly splayed. Wooden font cover, flat and round, probably 19th-century.