Slingsby / Eslingesbi / Lengeby / Lenggesby / Lengheby / Sclingasbi / Selingesbi / Selungesbi / Slengesbi / Slingbi / Slingebi / Slyngesbi

There are two entries [one is multiple-place] for Slingsby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6974/slingsby/] [accessed 4 December 2019], one of which reports a priest, but no a church in it, though there must have been one there. Bulmer's Directory of 1890 notices that a priest was reported in 'Selungesbi' in the Domesday survey of 1086, and infers that the church here, though not mentioned explicitly in the survey, must have existed already in Saxon times. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church was given to Whitby Abbey by William Hay and Robert Chambard, [...] confirmed to the abbey by Roger Archbishop of York before 1184 [...] The [present] church of All Saints was built in 1869 [...] nothing remains of the structure of any previous building except, perhaps, some of the voussoirs and a corbel capital of the north arcade, which appear to be 13thcentury work re-used. [...] The font and the other fittings of the church are modern except the communion table, which is of early 17th-century date. In the south chapel is an effigy of a knight in armour of late 13th-century date."