Great Maplestead / Mapledesteda

There is an entry for [Great] Maplestead [varian spelling] in the Domesday surveyy [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL8034/great-maplestead/] [accessed 19 April 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Listed in Bond (1908) as one of "a set of sculptured fonts which have credited with undue antiquity, owing to the ruthness of or uncouthness of their ornament; but it by no means follows that what is archaic is always ancient". The RCHM (1916) does not mention any font in this church, but includes a possible 11th-century font in Little Maplestead -- Pevsner (1976) notes"Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with traceried stem, and bowl with foliage decoration. Remains of colour found in 1929. The panels were bright blue with thin yellow diapering." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) write: "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with traceried stem. Remains of colour found in 1930. The panels were bright blue with yellow diapering, and the shields on the bowl had painted Emblems of the Passion with alternating borders of green and yellow, and red and yellow." The British Listed Buldings database [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-114302-church-of-st-giles-great-maplestead] [accessed 7 July 2010] notes: "Circa 1400 octagonal font, each side carved with a quatrefoil and shield, originally painted with only traces now remaining."