Littleport / Litelport

There is an entry for Littleport [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5686/littleport/] [accessed 13 April 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 4, 2002) notes: "During the episcopal vacancy of 1169-73 Geoffrey, Archdeacon of Canterbury, accounted for tithes from Littleport to the value of 11s. 5d. yearly [...] The church was appropriated to the hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, Ely, by Bishop de Burgh in 1225 [...] The fabric was almost entirely rebuilt late in the 15th century with the exception of the west bay of the north arcade, which is of 14th-century date. In 1857 the church was drastically restored [...] The font is of 15th-century date with an octagonal bowl having quatrefoils in the panels." Described and illustrated in Cambridgeshire Churches (2005): "In the south aisle, there is an octagonal font of familiar Perpendicular design at the west end". The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with deeply-carved quatrefoil-in-s-square panels; graded underbowl chamfer; mouldings at either end of the otherwise plain octagonal stem; splaying lower base, moulded. The font stands directly on the ground, without a plinth. There is damage to some of the mouldings and also on the upper basin side. The wooden fotn cover is round and flat and appears modern.