Anmer, in Sandringham estate / Anemere / Anmere

There are two entries in the Domesday survey for Anemere/Anmer [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7329/anmer/] [accessed 6 November 2013], but neither mentions church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports that the advowson of the church at "Anemere" was involved in a fine levied "In the 6th year of King Henry III." [i.e., 1222], mentions the dedication of this church to St. Mary, and names "William de Anemere" as first recorded rector in the 22nd year of Edward I's reign [i.e., 1294]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) inform that there are two fonts in this church, one Victorian, another 18th-century. Both are illustrated in Knott (2005). The English Heritage entry for this church [listed 5 June 1953] [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-221384-church-of-st-mary-anmer-norfolk] [accessed 6 November 2013] reports "Recut C15 font with shields [and] C18 baluster font" in this church. The 'Victorian' font noted in Pevsner & Wilson is the same as the one described in English Heritage as "Recut C15 font"; we cannot at this point ascertain either way, as it would take a close examination of the basin interior, for example, to decide one way or the other. That said, the font is odd-looking because only one half of it was re-cut, the east half, leaving the panels of the west half un-cut; the re-cut panels show a blank shield in a cusped quatrefoil frame; the rest of the decoration consists of a number of mouldings down the underbowl and base on all sides of the font. What the rationale for such a treatment was is left to speculation, although one could easily think that it probably was a cost-related decision rather than one based on aesthetic onsiderations. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the Early English church]