Swanton Morley / Suanetua

There is an entry for Swanton Morley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0117/swanton-morley/] [accessed 11 February 2014], and it mentions a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory [...] Thomas de Kenyngham occurs rector in 1306 [...] The church stands on a hill, in the middle of the town, and was building in the year 1379, as appears from the will William Lord Morley, dated 26th of August, in the said year, wherein he gives to the work of the church of Swanton Morley, (fn. 10) then begun, 10 marks, and his gilt cup [...] It consists of a nave or body, with 2 isles and a chancel; covered with lead, and under the east end of that, a large charnel; and there is a tall square tower with four bells." The present font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). The font is actually decorated with a moulding at the top and bottom of the basin, and has a moulded underbowl; basin, stem and splaying lower base are octagonal, as is the plinth which extends from the bases of one of the pillars of the nave. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Conquest-time church here].