Knapwell / Chenerewelle

There is an entry for Knapwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3362/knapwell/] [accessed 4 July 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The RCHM (1968) entry for this church reports: "Font: octagonal limestone bowl with under edge carved with beasts' heads, foliage and paterae; 14th-century; octagonal clunch stem with window forms carved on seven of the sides, the eighth plain, and chamfered base; all perhaps later medieval." The Victoria County Hystory (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 9, 1989) reports: "Knapwell had a church by the 1180s [...but...] was probably rebuilt in the early 14th century [...] An octagonal 14th century font survived in 1983". The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, with, by contrast, an underbowl decorated with eight animal heads (bovine, avian, simian, etc.) at the angles of the chamfer, single square flowers on the sides in between; on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with window tracery, and an octagonal-to-square lower base. Wooden font cover, octagonal and flat; appears modern. The basin has some damage at one of the upper angles, probably from an anchoring of an old cover; there is also a repair by one of the underbowl heads. The stone of the basin and that of the base appear very different, which may indicated the font is a composite.