Snitterfield / Snitefeld / Snitefelde / Snitenesfeld

There is an entry for Sitterfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2160/snitterfield/] [accessed 25 November 2014]; it reports a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The entry for this parish in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858) notes: "At the time of the Norman Conquest it had a church [...] The Church was given by Hugh de Hatton, in the reign of Stephen [i.e., 1135-1154], to the Prior and Canons of St. Sepulchre's in Warwick [...] Although there was a Church here existing at the time of the compilation of Domesday book no part of the present structure is of greater antiquity than the fourteenth century. [...] Font. This consists of a plain octagonal shaped basin, moulded round the ledge and bottom, resting on a plain octagonal shaft, with a rudely sculptured head at each angle; one of which represents that of a Bishop in his mitre; another that of a man in his caputium or hood. This font is apparently of the fourteenth century." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the late Decorated period. Described in Bond (1908) as one of several baptismal fonts of the 14th century with a design characteristic of the region of Warwickshire: the fonts are polygonal -usually octagonal- mounted and have "corbelled heads projecting from the base of the bowl".