Spixworth / Spike Suurda

There is an entry for Spixworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2415/spixworth/] [accessed 16 April 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Peter [...] and the abbey of St. Martin de Sez, or Sees, [...] in Normandy, had a portion of tithe [...] Robert Bardolf occurs rector in the 14th of Edward I" [i.e., 1286]. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Norman, of cauldron shape, on five round supports." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2009). The basin has a damaged moulding at the upper rim; the round underbowl has a square ending with a flat bottom; raised on a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes, all of them plain; square lower base. The wooden cover is modern, with two heads at the bottom, flat rib construction above, and a complex finial; the cover commemorates a mother and daughter who died in 1967, as the inscription around the bottom informs. The CRSBI (2008) notes other cauldron-shaped fonts at Belaugh (Nrflk.) and Leiston (Sfflk.)