East Keal / Keal / Easter Keal / Estrecale

There are three entries for East Keal [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3864/east-keal/] [accessed 10 July 2019], one of which reports "0.5 churches" in it [a moiety]. Paley (1844) writes: "The graver charge of indecency attaches to a sculpture on the Decorated Font at East Keal, Licolnshire". In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, with fig-leaf motif, and on the underside small faces." Betjeman (1958) notes: "14th-century font decorated with curious grotesque head." The Horncastle UK web site [www.horncastleuk.com] provides a meaning to the reticent comments above: "a rather unusual font. Around the base of the octagonal bowl are seven faces and facing the door next to the pillar a bare bottom." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3825463937] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14, restored and rebuilt externally with tower of 1853-4 [...] C16 octagonal font with floriate carved side panels and grotesque supporters."