Pampisford / Pampesuuorde / Pampesworth

There are eight entries for Pampisford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4948/pampisford/] [accessed 18 May 2016], one of which was in the lordship of a priest in 1086, and had a church with church lands in it as well. A font here is reported in "Topographical notices of Pampisford, in Cambridgeshire; taken in January 1815" by 'Ricmondiensis' and published in The Gentleman's Magazine: "Against the West pillar is placed the font; the upper part is rectangular, and lined with lead, the lower part is square; there is an antique cover: on top are two figures, intended, I think, for John baptizing Jesus, both figures are decapitated, the handywork, perhaps, of the Cambridgeshire reformer, William Dowsing." Illustrated in a sketch from ca. 1837 by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), and in Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire (1929) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, octagonal, with odd volute-spurs in the diagonals." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL4977548248] (1967) notes: " Font C12 retooled, octagonal bowl with round corner pieces to squared base with C19 pedestal and plinth. Font cover C15 octagonal ogee with crocketed ribs and band of quartrefoils at base, C16 figures of St John baptising Christ added later." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "A half-yardland in Pampisford was held from Countess Judith in 1086 by a priest, [cf. supra] whose presence suggests that there was then already a church, though the earliest part of the existing parish church dates from the mid 12th century. [...] The nave is mid-12th-century and retains its original south doorway with a carved tympanum. A north aisle was added c. 1200"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry.