Gaywood / Gauuide / Gawide / Gaywode / Geywode

The single entry for "Gauuide" in the Domesday survey mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes about John de Grey, bishop of Norwich confirming grants issued by his predecessor, Herbert, also bishop of Norwich, grants that excepted the tithes "belonging to the church of St. Faith of Gaywode, by deed dated the eleventh of the Kalends of April, in the 5th year of his pontificate." De Grey [aka De Gray] was elected [pro forma] to the see of Norwich in 1200, so we know St. Faith's was established before those dates, een though the first-recorded rector, "John de Walsham, collated by the Bishop, pleno jure", occurs in 1302. Blomefield (ibib.) adds a contemporary [i.e., late-18thC] description of the building: "The Church is dedicated to St. Faith, the Virgin and Martyr; it consists of a square steeple of brick, in which hang three bells, a nave, with north and south cross isles, covered with thatch." A font here is described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "A font of Gothic design but of post-Reformation date. On four of the eight sides are these inscriptions -- Qui crediderit et baptizatus fuerit salvus erit. / Christum induistis quot quot baptizati estis. / Voce pater natus corpore flamen ave. Mat. 3 / I am thy God and the God of thy seede. Gen." Noted in Cautley (1949) as a "quaintly inscribed font" of the 17th century. Pevsner & Wilson (1999), too, note the 17th-century inscription on a 15th-century font. Knott (2006), however, writes: "a rare 17th century Laudian font, similar to that at Tilney All Saints. It has Latin inscriptions on it". [NB" Knott (ibid.) illustrated an object in the churchyard that may be a baptismal font, either Perpendicular or a Victorian version of that design: octagonal basin with floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils; raised on an octagonal moulded base; it appears to be used as a flower pot]. [NB: we have no information on the font rom the original pre-1200 church here].