Neatishead / Neatisherd / Netesherd / Snatesherda / Snetesherd

There is an entry for Neatished [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3420/neatishead/] [accessed 29 April 2014], and it mentions a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1870) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter, appropriated by William Turbe Bishop of Norwich, and confirmed by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, and a vicarage settled [...] The church is a single pile, covered with reed, over the porch hangs a bell, the steeple being down [...] The chancel is covered with reed.—The church stands alone." [NB: William Turbe = "Christopher Harper-Bill, ‘William [William Turbe] (c.1095–1174)’" [source: ODNB [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29466 ] [accessed 29 April 2014], but first recorded vicar noted in Blomefield (ibid.) is "In 1301, Clement de Thargarton was instituted vicar, presented by the abbot." Not clear why the gap between the appropriation (pre-1174) and the first vicar (1301), but Blomefield (ibid.), reports that "Odo de Lodered was presented to the rectory in the 15th of King John [i.e., 1204], by him, on the vacancy of an abbot", adding "it seems that the appropriation had been set aside, or that the King disregarded it"]. The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as a font of the 14th century decorated with "reticulated and early Perp[endicular] patterns." Illustrated in Knott (2004), who notes that the font survives from the medieval church but no in its original place, as part of that church was partly destoyed, and rebuilt in 1790. The sides of the basin and octagonal base are covered in tracery. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with a cross finial; appears modern.