Feltwell No. 2 / Fatwella / Feltuuella / Feltwella

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "We learn from the Norwich Domesday Book, that the rector then had a house and 40 acres of land, and that the patronage of the church was in the see of Ely. [...] St. Nicholas's Church [...] [s]tands at the west end of the town, and is a small pile of flint and pebbles, in length about 36 feet, and in breadth, together with the north and south isles, about 48, and covered with lead." Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "Richard de Lynde occurs rector about 1290." A font in this chiurch is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal. Re-cut in 1830." Illustrated in Knott (2009). The Feltwell community web site [www.feltwell.net] notes: "The Royal Air Force transported and bore the cost of re-erection of the font from a small Church at Stanton, near Bury St Edmunds about 1962/63." The font consists of an octagonal basin with rounded underbowl; there are two parallel mouldings near the upper rim and one more at the bottom of the underbowl; the stem is also octagonal and panelled; the lower base is moulded [NB: not known how much of the font is original or what it looked like originally -- we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]