Wimpole / Winepol / Winepole

There are two entries for Wimpole [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3350/wimpole/] [accessed 17 May 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted, with a drawing by J. Basire, in Gough (1792) as being "of the earliest antiquity"; the monolithic basin is hexagonal with plain vertical sides and a round inner wel; raised on a quadrangular plinth. Paley (1844) writes that, although polygonal, "the font at Wimpole, near Cambridge, is probably of Saxon date." The British Museum Catalogue of the manuscript... (1849+) lists a "sketch, in pen and ink, of the hexagonal stone font in Wimpole Church, drawbn by the Rev. Thomas Kerrich: 6 in. x 4 in. (Add. 6736, fol. 65)". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Bond (1908) as a polygonal unmounted font, comparatively rare in Norman days. No font is mentioned in the RCHM (1968) entry for this church. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "Picot the sheriff granted two-thirds of the tithes of his demesne in Wimpole before 1092 to the canons of St. Giles, Cambridge, later Barnwell Priory. [...] The chapel is all that remains of a larger church that had a chancel and aisled nave and was destroyed in 1748 to allow the erection of a new building, completed in 1749 to the design of Henry Flitcroft"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The current font at Wimpole St. Andrew's is modern, a polygonal basin decorated with the Star of David in a quatrefoil on one of the sides, raised on pink-marble columns with stone capitals and bases, on a polygonal lower base/plinth.