Little Thetford / Liteltedford / Thetford

There is an entry for Little Thetford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5376/little-thetford/] [accessed 21 April 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 4, 2002) notes: "The chapel of Thetford is not mentioned in the Taxatio, but the present building displays 14th-century work. Its dedication (St. George) suggests that it may have been newly built at that time. [...] The fabric is of 14th-century origin [...] The 14th-century font has an octagonal bowl and shaft with a human head projecting from each alternate face of the bowl; there are tracery heads under the bowl." The church interior plan included in the VCH shows the font right in the middle of the nave, at the west end [cf. infra]. Described and illustrated in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site [www.druidic.org/camchurch]: "a very fine font. It's large, and very plain -- the octagonal bowl and stem are almost unadorned, save for the heads sticking out of four faces. They are now terribly mutilated -- I could make out a wimple on one, but the features are almost entirely gone -- but the whole thing has an impressively primitive feel to it [...]" The basin has slightly tapering sides, four of which -every other side- are adorned with the protruding heads mentioned above; graded chamfer on the octagonal underbowl, the lower level of which is wider and decorated with round arches (semicircular windows?) housing motifs in them; plain octagonal pedestal and lower base. The baptismal font appears to be of the 14th or 15th century. [NB: a recent [2004] photograph of the church interior shows the font practically against the south wall of the nave, a different position from that indicated in the VCH church interior plan [cf. supra]; appears to indicate that the font has been moved].