Stainton / Great Stainton / Stainton in le Street / Stainton in Strata / Stanton le Strete / Staynton in the Streete

Noted in Mackenzie (1834): "the font is an octagonal bason of freestone". In Whellan (1856) and in Fordyce (1857): "The font is an octagonal basin of freestone". Noted in the Victoria County History (Durham, vol. 3, 1928): "The church of Stainton [...] was granted by Guy de Balliol in the late 11th or early 12th century to the Abbot of St. Mary's, York [...] The site is an ancient one and pre-Conquest fragments with interlaced patterns, probably part of a cross shaft, have been found. [...] rebuilt in 1876 in the style of the 14th century. [...] the old stone font, still in the church, is of late 12th-century date. It consists of a plain bowl on a moulded stem and base […] The font in use is modern". Ryder (October 2006) [www.durham.anglican.org/userfiles/file/Durham Website/Diocese and Admin/Care of Churches/Great Stainton All Saints Archaeological Assessment.pdf] [accessed 20 March 2012] notes: "The Font stands beneath the tower; it has an octagonal bowl, circular at the base, on a cylindrical shaft with two moulded rings, and a worn moulded base set on a 19th-century octagonal step. Hodgson ( 1912, 237-8, pl.f.p.234) sees it ‘as of the Pudseyan period’ (ie later 12th century) but the shaft almost has the look of an Anglo-Saxon baluster. In 1876 this font was removed to the vicarage garden, but returned and reinstalled in the church some years later. A Victorian font, probably contemporary with the church, stands at the north-east corner of the nave; it has an octagonal bowl with a sunk quatrefoil on each face." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ3356922173] notes: "2 stone fonts in baptistery: one medieval with moulded base, cylindrical stem and octagonal-plan cup-shaped bowl; the other late C19." [NB: probably from the 1876 re-bulilding of this church].