Westhorpe / Westor / Westorp / West torp / Westurp

There are nine entries for Westhorpe [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0469/westhorpe/] [accessed 30 December 2019], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, an octagon, on round legs." Cautley (1982) reports a 17th-century cover in this church. Both font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2008), The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM0437469232] notes: "Parish church. C14; south porch added, refenestrated and raised with a clerestorey in C15, north chapel added in early C17, chancel restored 1896. [...] In nave a plain octagonal font on 2 steps, moulded below bowl, C17 pyramidal timber cover, lower quilloche band, moulded ribs to pinnacle." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, raised on a plain octagonal stem and a two-step plinth; there is a moulding on the underbowl and one other where thee latter meets the stem. The cover itself consists of an octagonal platform with decorated sides and a pyramid of the same shape with moulded arrisses and a knob finial. The basin appears to have been re-tooled; it now rests on a single broad pedestal, having perhaps lost the "round legs" noted in Parker [cf. supra].