Little Clacton / Clachintune

There is an entry for [Great and Little] Clacton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-clacton/] [accessed 12 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: square bowl of Purbeck marble with shallow round-headed arcades on sides; under each arch on N. side, a raised cross, late 12th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Of the square Purbeck type; with four blank shallow round-headed arches on each side, C12." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add: "on four C20 pillars". The Parish website [http://www.littleclactonparishchurch.co.uk/churchhistory.htm] [accessed 14 July 2010] dates the font ca. 1190 and the new base 1954. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with four panels on each face and under each arch on one face there is a raised cross; the base is later" [source given: RCHM (NE), 1922]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM1661218820] notes: "Parish church. C12 Chancel. C14 Nave of earlier origin. C14 south porch. C15 bell turret. C19 restorations [...] C12 square font of Purbeck marble, each face with 4 round headed arches, under each arch on north side a raised cross. Stem restored 1954." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=76122] [accessed 12 February 2023]