Little Carlton / Carletone

There is an entry for this [Little] Carlton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3985/little-carlton/] [accessed 27 July 2019]; it reports a church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "The church is a neat small edifice, erected about twelve years ago on the site of a former one". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4035185370] reports "All fittings have been removed". Information received by BSI in March 2007 from Wendy Parkinson includes a note regarding the recent (?) demolition of this church and a photograph of its font as it stands in the churchyard. The object consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with three trefoil arches on each panel, above which are six smaller replica arches on each panel; the basin underbowl is decorated with graded moulding; plain octagonal stem on a moulded splaying lower base. Wooden cover, scalloped all around; modern. The font dates likely from the new building reported in Lewis [cf. supra]. The 'LINCS to the past' site [www.lincstothepast.com/ANGLO-SAXON-GRAVE-COVER-FROM-ST-EDITH-S-CHURCH--LITTLE-CARLTON/233562.record?pt=S] [accessed 27 July 2019] has an entry that may give some idea of the age of the original church here: "During the demolition of St Edith's church in 1993 part of a limestone grave cover was found in the rubble fill of the wall between the two main windows. The stone is decorated in low relief on the top surface with a twin cable herring bone border surrounding a central panel comprising one complete figure-of-eight pattern and half a second pattern. These slabs are characteristic of the Lindsey region and are dated to the later tenth to eleventh century." The site gives "Intervention Report: Lindsey Archaeological Services. 1994. St Edith's Church, Little Carlton near Louth" as the source for this information.