Ubbeston / Upbestunam

There is an entry for Ubbeston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3272/ubbeston/] [accessed 25 April 2019]; it reports "1 church. 0.02 church lands" in it. Gough (1792) writes of this font: "Ubbeston is octagon, adorned with roses in quatrefoils divided by pairs of niches, and the shaft is divided into niches." Gorham (1824) writes: "In the centre of the nave is an elegant octagonal Font." Simon Knott (1999) [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] informs that the medieval font which now stands near the newer, 19th-century font, by the former north door, in the Parish Church of St. Margaret, Heveningham,was actually brought here from Ubbeston when that church fell redundant in the 1970s. Aidan Semmens [www.sillysuffolk.co.uk], in his page on Heveningham, notes: "there are two fonts. The first one is Victorian -- the other, 400 years older, was brought from neighbouring Ubbeston in 1983 after that village's church was converted to a private home and the parished combined. Ubbeston infants are still baptised in the Ubbeston font." [cf. Index entry for Heveningham for the original medieval font of Heveningham, perhaps now disappeared]. [NB: Gorham (1824) reports that "the antient Saxon door" still remained in his time, "on the South side of the church", but we have no information on the font of that time here].