Airmyn

No individual entry for Airmyn found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing IoE Number: 164859] notes: "Parish church. Nave dated on tablet to 1676; alterations of 1858 included re-roofing, new bellcote and west porch; chancel and organ chamber of 1884"; it mentions no font in it, nor anything prior to 1676. The Church of England's A Church Near You entry for this church reads: "The present-day church at Airmyn is not the only one that the village has ever had. The first church was built here in 1311 but it had a most inauspicious beginning because the villagers had built it for themselves without asking anyone’s permission. The Archbishop of York, Archbishop Greenfield, declared himself “astounded” at what they had done “in contempt of us and the mother church of Snaith in whose parish they live” and he banned them from conducting services of divine worship in their chapel “on pain of ecclesiastical exclusion [...] This first church served Airmyn in a very constrained way for the next three and a half centuries - no marriages or burials, although it did have a font - until, in 1674, it was described as being “quite out of repaire” and the decision seems to have been taken to demolish it and replace it with the church that we have nowadays."