Haveringland / Heveringalanda / Heverland

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Heverland. Called in Domesday Book, Heveringalanda, was the lordship of Goodwin Earl of Kent, (though styled a freeman only,) and father of King Harold: in the reign of the Confessor, [...] a church belonged to it with 10 acres, and was granted by King William I. to Rainald, son of Ivo, lord at the survey." Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter," This author (ibid.) further reports the existence of "Mountjoy Priory Manor and Priory [...] founded by William de Gyney, lord of Heverland, in a place there called Thweyt, about the reign of King Richard I [i.e., 1199-1216] [...] Newcourt says that the brethren or fraternity of Mountjoy was an order of knighthood established at Jerusalem, by Pope Alexander III. and confirmed in 1185, under St. Basil's rule: [...] but this priory is generally said to have been for canons of the order of St. Austin, and the patronage was always in the lords of this manor. [...] It was suppressed in 1528, before the general dissolution, by a bull of Pope Clement [...] The priory was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, St. Michael and St. Laurence, and stood about a mile south-west of the parish church." The present font of the parish church here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal C13 bowl with flat cusped arches; C19 stem." Illustrated in Knott (2005). The basin has a pair of blank trefoiled arches on each side; the replacement base, also octagonal, was made to replicate the design of the basin. On an octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. [NB: we have no information on the font from the pre-Conquest church here].