Horningsea / Horningesie

There is an entry for Horningsea [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4962/horningsea/] [accessed 19 July 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The RCHM (1972) notes: "Font: octagonal bowl with deep uncarved sides, lead-lined, set on one central and four peripheral octagonal columns each with splayed capitals, necking and triple-roll bases, stands on moulded octagonal base and large octagonal foot-pace, early 13th-century." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "A minster recorded at Horningsea in the early 10th century may have survived the occupation of the area by the invading Danes in the late 9th. […] In the early 10th century the priest Cenwold was succeeded as its head by the priest Herulf. Between 963 and 970 Bishop Aethelwold purchased the minster from King Edgar […] but control of its property remained in dispute. Bishop Aethelwold eventually gained possession of the minster, and before his death in 984 granted it to the monks of Ely. From 1109 rights over the church at Horningsea passed to the newly established bishops of Ely. […] The existing parish church […] may occupy the site of the 10th-century minster. […] That earlier church perhaps consisted of a single-celled main body with porticus to north and south, putatively providing the ground plan for its successor. […] he existing parish church, dedicated to ST. PETER by 1266, (fn. 46) may occupy the site of the 10th-century minster. (fn. 47) That earlier church perhaps consisted of a single-celled main body with porticus to north and south, putatively providing the ground plan for its successor." The old basin is octagognal with plain vertical sides; it is now raised on a modern columnar base. The Victoria County History (Cambridge, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "A minster recorded at Horningsea in the early 10th century may have survived the occupation of the area by the invading Danes in the late 9th [century] [...] The existing parish church, dedicated to St. Peter by 1266, [...] may occupy the site of the 10th-century minster [...] Surviving fittings include the early 13th-century font bowl" [i.e., survivor of the 13th-century additions to the earlier minster]