Preston-in-Holderness / Preston nr. Holderness / Prestune / Prestvne

There are two entries for this Preston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA1830/preston/] [accessed 19 July 2014], one of which, in the lordship of Baldwin of Flanders, reports a church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's 3 April 1867 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a plain octagonal bowl on a stem of like shape, and pieces of foliage beneath the bowl." Differently described in Bulmer's Directory of 1892: "The font is hexagonal and ancient; the upper part of the shaft is ornamented with a carved oak leaf pattern". English Heritage [List entry Number: 1083438] (1966) notes: "Parish church. C13 north arcade, C14 south arcade; C15 north aisle, north chapel and tower; C15 - early C16 south aisle and clerestory. Restorations of c1800, south door rebuilt 1828, chancel restored 1879; restorations of 1880-82 included re-roofing; further restorations of c1900, to roof in 1964 and tower in 1982. [...] C15 octagonal font with bold foliate carvings to underside, octagonal shaft and base." The upper basin has had large areas repaired with new-stone insert; there is a round moulding atop the octagonal stem; the lower base is octagonal-to-square; the plinth is also octagonal, with a 'priest's stone' or kneeling extension to the west. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; it is modern.