Caistor No. 2 / Castor / Castre

There is an entry for Caistor [variant spelling] in the Domesday Survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1101/caistor/] [accessed 9 February 2026]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Illustrated in Fisher (1962). Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) as stone baptismal font designed by William Butterfield, the Victorian architect, for the 1873 restoration of this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA1167601271 ] notes: "Parish Church. Cll, C12, C13, C14, C15, C17, C18. Chancel rebuilt 1848, restoration by Butterfield 1862", but mentions no fint in it. Octagonal mounted font; the basin is prismatic, the lower side narrower than the upper; it has mouldings at top and bottom and a large motifs (leaf?) on the west side panel; the pedestal base is also prismatic but its proportions are the opposite (i.e., narrower at top than at bottom). The whole is raised on an octagonal pedestal. The font cover is a tallish dome of Jacobean style, but probably 19th-century, like the font itself. [NB: the church goes back to early Norman times but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].