Swine / Suuine / Svvine

There is an entry for Swine [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TA1335/swine/] [accessed 28 July 2015]; it mentions a priest and 1/2 hide of church lands in it, but no a church, though there probably was one there. A font here is noted in Glynne's 3 April 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The west tower, of meagre modern Gothic, built 1722 […] The font is ugly and probably of the same date as the tower". The entry for the Cistercian Nun Priory of Swine in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The priory of Swine was founded by Robert de Verli, [...] at some period prior to the death of King Stephen, for his gift of the church of St. Mary of Swine was confirmed to the nuns there by Hugh Pudsey, Archdeacon of the East Riding and Treasurer of York, which offices he vacated in 1154, when he became Bishop of Durham. [...] At first there is evidence that the house was in some form a double monastery of men and women [...] The house, here said to be 'of the order of St. Bernard,' although well under the £200 limit, was exempted from suppression on 1 October 1537 [...] the priory was surrendered on 9 September 1539". The Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) notes: "There was probably a church at Swine in 1086, when a priest was recorded on the manor, [...] and certainly one c. 1150, when the Verlis gave it to Swine priory at that house's foundation. [...] The church of ST. MARY, so called from the 12th century, [...] was formerly a cruciform building, the eastern arm of which was occupied by the parish church and the part west of the crossing tower by the priory church. That unusual disposition of priory and parish churches is also found, however, at Nunkeeling. [...] The nuns' church was evidently demolished soon after the Dissolution, apart from some fragments which remained in 1784; [...] its site and that of the claustral buildings was occupied in 1998 by the large yard and outbuildings of the neighbouring farm. [...] It may have been rebuilt late in the 12th century [...] a small font, comprising a late 18th-century bowl of Coade stone with Gothick ornament on a possibly medieval shaft". The artificial-stone font is probably late-18th century, so rather later than the 1722 tower. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].