Romanby

The Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "There was a chapel at Romanby as early as 1231. In that year a grant was made to John de Romanby, his heirs, and the men of the vill of Romanby of a perpetual chantry [...] They were to maintain the chaplain [...] and they, the chaplain and his successors were to swear obedience to the mother church and its rectors. [...] This chapel occurs as a dependent chapel to Northallerton in 1386. [...] In 1523 Cardinal Wolsey ordered the destruction of Romanby chapel in consequence of the incumbent of Northallerton having questioned his authority, and this order was subsequently carried out. [...] The church of St. James, Romanby, was built in 1882 [...] In the churchyard are some architectural fragments apparently of 14th-century date." [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval chapel].