Hennock / Hanoch

There is an entry for Hennock [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX8280/hennock/] [accessed 12 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Stabb (1908) writes: "The font is fine, a large bowl of local stone supported by five shafts, a thick central one, and a smaller at each corner. The date is about 1170, and the font must have belonged to an earlier church on the same site." Clarke (1922) describes it as one nine Devon 'table fonts' (Bondleigh, Hennock, Holbeton, Honiton Clyst, Mariansleigh, North Lew, Petrockstowe, Roseash and Washfield) that belong to the thirteenth century, "though the ornament on the bowls is of that date their heavy construction suggests a Norman origin, so that they have often been wrongly attributed to the twelfth century". Described in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Square Norman, one side with the blank arcade of the table-top fonts, the others with elementary leaf motifs." Davies (1962) [after Coulton (1936, vol. II: 451)] informs that "In 1342 a visitation of the Totnes Archdeaconry revealed that at Hennock the font had no lock". [cf. Index entry for Clyst Honiton for a full description, measurements and illustration of this type of font]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with panels on one face and foliage decoration on the others" [source given: Pevsner]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX8301880923] notes: "Parish church. C15, restored 1875 [...] late Norman limestone font having square carved bowl on round pier with detached shafts at corners and moulded base."