Wood Ditton / Woodditton / Ditone / Oitone

There are two entries for Woodditton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL6559/woodditton/] [accessed 13 July 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: TL6596859155] (1959) notes: "Font with octagonal bowl, panelled stem and moulded base set on older base with spurs." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, (fn. 1) whose lords probably founded it. Droard son of Cade gave it to Thetford priory (Norf.) in the early 12th century. […] The parish church was dedicated to All Saints from the 12th century to the early 19th, […] its modern name of ST. MARY being first recorded in 1852 […] The 15th-century roofs of the aisles and porch survive, as do the inner door of the porch and the 15th-century font." The Parish web site [http://www.wood-ditton.org.uk/parish1898.htm ] [accessed 23 December 2007] reproduces extracts from Wood Ditton parish magazines from 1898, the No. 10 (October) of which notes: "The removal of the little font to its proper place in the Church (the entrance to the House of God) will have commended itself to us all for more reasons than one." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain tapering sides, raised on an octagonal stem with decorated panels and a moulded octagonal lower base; a second lower base -it does not really look like a plinth, is octagonal-to-square and has 'bulges' at the angles, where one would expect spurs or similar. The font does not seem to fit together; the basin and the second lower base appear to fit, but the stem and first lower base appear to ask for a decorated basin, not a plain one. Is this a composite font? The wooden cover is modern, and consists of two parts: a flat octagonal base presumably secured to the upper basin rim; the lid proper, round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern as well. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church].