Kirkby-in-Cleveland / Cherchebi / Kirby in Cleveland / Kirkby / Kirkby in Cleveland / Kirkeby / Kyrkebi

There is a multiple-place entry for this Kirkby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ5306/kirkby/] [accessed 18 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The church, dedicated in the 15th century, if not earlier, in the honour of St. Augustine the Bishop, [...] was granted in the middle of the 12th century by Adam de Ingleby son of Viel to Whitby Abbey [...] rebuilt in 1815 [...] restored in 1906 [...] Three fragments of a pre-Conquest cross with interlaced ornament have been found, [...] together with a cross head probably of later date, a 12th-century scalloped capital, and two 12th-century sculptured stones, one with the figure of a Norman knight on horseback with a sword in his right hand, and the other with the figure of a female in long gown with hanging sleeves. [...] The font is ancient and consists of a small octagonal bowl on a plain circular stem. The bowl has the appearance of having been originally circular and may be of 12th-century date." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ5383806050] notes: "Parish church. 1815 on early medieval site, re-using some old masonry"; no font mentioned in it.