Ketton / Chetene / Keten / Ketene

There is an entry for Ketton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9804/ketton/] [accessed 23 July 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church, in it, though there probably was one there. Paley (1844) notes a font of the Decorated period on a five-support base here. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a handsome baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "There was a priest at Ketton at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086). [...] The church is, in the main, a 13th-century rebuilding of a Norman fabric, which itself may have been a late 12th-century rebuilding of an earlier structure. [...] The 14th-century font has an octagonal bowl with incised window-tracery panels, on a central cylindrical stem and rectangular legs with moulded bases." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Octagonal, with flat blank two-light arches with circles, all surfaces decorated with very flat leaf-work." In the sides of the octagonal basin "conventional foliage is mingled with simple forms of tracery, resembling two lancets with a quatrefoil in a circle above". The base consists of a central shaft and four corner columns, all polygonal (octagonal?). The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth with a square upper level.