Hovingham

There is an entry for Hovingham in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6675/hovingham/] [accessed 2 December 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne's 19 November 1863 visit to this church reports: "The font new, the bowl of square form, of pink marble." Neither Bulmer's Directory of 1890 nor the National Gazetteer of 1868 mention an earlier font, but there must have been one, perhaps from the time of the old tower [10th century?] or earlier. Baptismal font consisting of a whitish pink-veined marble square basin raised on four columnar supports -the columns themselves in reddish marble- and a square lower base; Victorian, probably dated to the re-building of the old church around 1860. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "A church and priest are mentioned at Hovingham in 1086 [...] The oldest part of the church is the tower, which dates from the middle of the 11th century, and formed part of an aisled church of the same date. With the exception of the tower the whole church was rebuilt in 1860"; no font mentioned in it.