Lolworth / Lolesuuorde

There is an entry for Lolworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3664/lolworth/] [accessed 29 June 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The RCHM (1968) reports a late-14th century font made of clunch in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem and pointed quatrefoils on the panels of the bowl." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "Of the present church the chancel and nave were rebuilt in the early 14th century. […] Two small trefoil-headed lancets reset in the south porch, with a coffin lid bearing a floriated cross, indicate the existence of an earlier structure. [,,,] The advowson of Lolworth church, which has remained a rectory, belonged from the early 13th century to the lords of the manor. […] The first recorded rector was Henry de Colville, from c. 1285 to 1310. […] The chancel windows once contained glass with the arms of Thorpe, Knyvett, and probably Colville, suggesting that they were glazed in the late 14th century. […] The octagonal font […] also of that period." Described and illustrated in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site [www.druidic.org/camchurch]: "The tiny font belongs to the Perpendicular. The carving is endearingly crude -- the octagonal stem is decorated with panels of blind tracery, and the lines are all slightly lopsided. Bits and pieces of paint remain on the stem and in the bowls [sic] (which are carved with very shallow squared-off quatrefoils)." The Parish web site [www.honeyhill.org] informs: "The Font, of the Decorated period, was restored in 1911 and again in 1996. On its removal from south wall the base of a Norman churchyard cross was discovered. This is now near the font." As indicated in this source, the carving is quite irregular and some panels appear as if they had been re-tooled; the lower base and the plinth are modern, the plinth with three steps. The wooden cover is octagonal and almost flat; modern.