Lowthorpe / Logetorp / Loghetorp

Bulmer's Directory of 1892 notes: "A church stood here as early as the Conquest. The present edifice is supposed to have been built in 1333, when the church, previously a rectory, was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslarton […] The church was then a large and handsome edifice, but it has been shorn of its beauty, and curtailed in its dimensions by so called restorations since that time. Some of these were recorded on a stone on the outside of the north wall of the nave, but the inscription is now illegible. In 1776, the roof was repaired at the cost of the parishioners, and the following year the church was paved and re-pewed, and the chancel contracted and painted by Sir William de St. Quintin, Bart., lord of the manor and patron of the living, who descended from the family of the Heslartons, by the marriage of Sir William de St. Quintin, to Constance, daughter of Sir John de Heslarton, founder of the chantries before mentioned. The nave was re-roofed and slated in 1860. The font is ancient". The present [June 2008] font is certainly not ancient; it appears Victorian, and would have suited the major church renovation date of 1859, where it not for the fact that Bulmer's Directory was published in 1892 and it describes the font as "ancient" [was this font brought into the church later than 1892? If so, what happened to the "ancient" font?]