Waldingfield Parva / Little Waldingfield

There are three entried for Waldingfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM2844/waldringfield/] [accessed 21 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, an octagon, with angels in the panels of the bowl; also with angels supporting it". Noted in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 14th century that "has lost the figures round the shaft, but the bowl has very interesting figures of seated monks studying [cf. Nichols infra]. The other four panels have the evangelists emblems." Nichols (1994) mentions Waldingfield Parva with Stoke-by-Nayland as having the four Evangelists on alternate basin sides with the doctors of the Church. She cites Cautley (1982) but points out that Cautley mistakes the doctors of the Church with monks studying. Knott (2007) provides also a similar description from Mortlock's guide and one from the church's own guidebook, which adds that there are angels on the underbowl and that there originally there were lions on the four remaining brackets of the base shaft; this guide also claims that the figures between the lions were no doubt woodwoses (i.e., wild men of the woods), each holding a staff [cf. BSI files, Knott's 2007 entry in Suffolk Churches, and an e-mail from S.Knott, Dec. 27, 1999)]. [NB: Parker (1855) notes an entry for Waldingfield All Saints', with an octagonal Perpendicular font "with emblems of the Evangelists; we have not been able to find a church with that dedication in either Great or Little Waldinfield in Suffolk, but it is likely that Parker's entry refers to this church and font]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9241745158] notes: "C15 flint and stone church […] The Cl5 octagonal font is carved with the emblems of the 4 Evangelists and monks in Benedictine habit."