Thorpe St. Peter / Thorpe Saint Peter / Torp

There are three entries for Thorpe [St Peter] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4860/thorpe-st-peter/] [accessed 20 January 2019] one of which reports a church in it. If both Harvey & Cox (1907), who describe a font here with his usual " noteworthy example", and Paley (1844) refer to the same font -the one at Thorpe St. Peter's parish church- it is indeed a noteworthy example or, in Paley's more generous description, a "chaste and beautifully designed Font of the Early English period" which should be "carefully restored according to the original design [the corner shafts are missing], as few would then exceed it in beauty" (Paley, ibid.) "The bowl is cylindrical, and is ornamented with an arcade of elegantly formed trefoil arches, with foliage in the spandrels" (ibid.) The moulding at the bottom rim of the basin indents to create four small arches at a 90 degree angle of each other; the first arch (L->R) houses a king's head, the next a bishops', the next a knights' and the last one, a knot of foliage. At the time [ca. 1844] the only remaining part of the base was the central octagonal pillar, but Paley (ibid.) states that the original base had four corner shafts as well. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. E[arly] E[nglish], with pointed-trefoiled arches on colonnettes. Heads against the underside." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4849660683] notes: "Parish church. c.1200, late C13, C14, C15, C16, restored C19. [...] Early C13 drum font with trefoil headed arcade supported on slender jambs with moulded capitals and fleur-de-lys in spandrels; below capitals of original pedestal including human heads. C14 octagonal pedestal below." The font is noted and illustrated in the entry for this church in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thislocation=Thorpe St Peter] [accessed 20 January 2019].