Horseheath No. 1 / Horsei

There are five entries for Horseheath [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL6147/horseheath/] [accessed 18 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Illustrated in three sketches of ca. 1838 by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "There is architectural evidence of a church at Horseheath in the 12th century [...] the external walls incorporate pieces of Barnack stone carved with chevrons indicative of a 12th-century building [...] It was substantially rebuilt in the 14th century and later, although the lowest storey of the tower has thick walling, possibly of the 13th century [...] The octagonal font is Perpendicular. Described and illustrated in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site: "The font is resonably nice -- a Perpendicular model, with blank panelling on the stem and piping around the eight faces on the bowl. The faces themselves are completely blank [...] Without any decoration, it looks a bit incomplete". Ben Colburn [the author of the CC entry above] is right to make the last remark, as it is likely that the now blank faces may have been decorated originally in some way [www.druidic.org/camchurch]. The wooden font cover is flat and octagonal, and has a pivot and ball handle/finial. The underbowl is equally blank; the sides of the octagonal stem are vertical and decorated with blind cinquefoil arches. [cf. Index entry for Horseheath No. 2 for a fragment on earlier font incorporated into the external wall of the vestry of the church]