Westley Waterless / Weslai

There are four entries for Wesley [Waterless] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL6156/westley-waterless/] [accessed 18 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is illustrated in a November 1837 sketch by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshre. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "A church was recorded at Westley in the later 12th century when Robert de Valognes (fl. 1160), son of Agnes, gave its advowson, lands, and tithes to Binham priory (Norf.) [...] The oldest part of the fabric was probably the round west tower, which fell in 1855. [...] The chancel dates from the early 13th century; the chancel arch and three-bay nave are 14th-century. [...] The 15th-century font is octagonal with traceried panels." Described and illustrated in the Cambridgeshire Churches: "the font [...] is octagonal, and looks like it might be 13th or 14th century. Each face is decorated with a different pattern, geometrical shapes or architectural forms. Amongst others, I noted a three-lighted window with a transom on the east face, a seven-lobed multifoil on the south-east, as well as trefoils and arcades elsewhere." The font is octagonal at the basin and stem, but the lower base goes from octagonal at the top to square lower down, on two levels. There is damage to several areas of the font and it appears badly weathered all over.