Winterton / Winterton-on-Sea / Wintretuna

There are nine entries for Winterton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4919/winterton/] [accessed 28 May 2014], one of which reports a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes: "The church here mentioned was that of East Somerton, and at that time was a distint parish, and had its own rector" [the "here" in Blomefield's text is his transcription of the Domesday entry: "In Wintretuna viii lib. ho'es Almari comd. tantu. xiiii ac. terre. semp. dim. car. tc. val. viiid. mo. xxiiii. In Somertuna iii lib. ho'es T. R. E. sed. postq. Tostius exiit de Anglia Bernard. fuit i ecc'lia S. Bened. de Hulmo. tenuit cvi ac. terre ix ac. p'ti. sep. ix bord. sep. i car. et dim. semp. val. iiii sol, et viiid." Blomefield (ibid.) mentions a second church, "with 6 acres of meadow", in "Terra Sci Benedicti de Holmo", that is, in another of the Domesday entries for Winterton; it must be this church which he later describes: "The church of Winterton is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints", a church that appears to have been 'bundled up' with the chapel at East Somerton in different patronage or advowson deals. The present font here is noted in Pevsner and Wilson (1997): "Octagonal and C19." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The dome cover is probably contemporary. [cf. Index entry for East Somerton].