Rampton nr. Cambridge / Rantone

There is an entry for this Rampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4268/rampton/] [accessed 30 June 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Paley (1844) mentions it as one of several fonts built closely adjoining the belfry arch, "and evidently placed there when the arch was built". Paley's Guide of the same year notes "the font, a plain circular basin" near the Perpendicular belfry arch, but pointing our the late-Norman date of other parts of the church, a period to which the original font and the surviving basin are likely to belong. Also in Bond (1908), after Paley. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL4285268111] (1962) reports: "The font is C12. Limestone, round basin on octagonal stem." The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "The church was included in Picot the sheriff's foundation grant of c. 1092 to the Austin canons of Cambridge, later Barnwell priory, together with two thirds of his undertenant's demesne tithes. […] The thatched nave roof is one of only two surviving in Cambridgeshire. Evidence for a 12th-century building comprising nave and chancel exists in the three-shafted jambs and scalloped capitals of the chancel arch, in a blocked round-headed window in the north wall of the nave, and in chevron voussoirs re-used in the east wall. The unbuttressed tower, which has slim lancets in its second stage, was begun in the later 12th or the 13th century"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. Stockner (1997) gives 12th-13th century dating and lists it as as a possible early font bowl set within base of successor.