Brignall / Brigenhale / Brigenhall / Bringhal / Bringhale / Bringhenale [Domesday]

There is a multiple-place [28 places] entry for Brignall [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ0712/brignall/] [accessed 8 November 2019]; it mentions two churches in it. Whitaker (1823) comments on the modernisation of the church here having "destroyed almost every vestige of antiquity", and provides an illustration of its font. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 2014) notes; "Roger de Mowbray gave the church in the 12th century to the Hospital of SS. Peter and Leonard of York [...] The ruins of the old church of ST. MARY, on the bank of the River Greta, are sufficiently preserved to show that it had an aisleless nave and chancel, the latter being of the 13th century [...] The font was removed from the old church and is of the 13th century, but, unfortunately, much cut down and reworked; it has a round bowl on a stem with six attached shafts and bases, but no capitals. Between the shafts are lines of dog-tooth ornament, mostly left unworked. [...] The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, built in 1833, consecrated 4 September 1834 and restored in 1892". The ruins of Old St Mary's are listed [Listing NGR: NZ0772412196]: "Former parish church. Probably C13, remodelled in C18; largely demolished 1833 when new church (q.v.) was built. [...] In poor condition and deteriorating at time of survey."