Garveston / Garvestone / Garston / Gerolfestuna [Domesday] / Girofestuna / Girolfestun / Girolfestuna

There is an entriy for Garveston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0207/garveston/] [accessed 26 March 2014], with two churches and church lands reported in it [NB: the transcription of the Domesday text in Blomefield (1805-1810), "i ecclia vii ac. [...] a church endowed with 7 acres", mentions only one church, but the other church may church in the survey may be that of "Whinburgh", with which locality it was valued]. Blomefield (ibid.) notes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and is a rectory. [...] It is a small pile, and has 2 isles and a chancel; at the west end a tower with 4 bells [...] The chancel was out of repair and unused for many years [...] The font is ancient, adorned with carving, and the church is neat, in good repair, and covered with lead." Kelly's Directory of 1883 notes that the font here is ancient. It is described without a suggested date in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Stem with fleurons, bowls with shield surrounded by crinkly seaweed leaves." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "decent late medieval font, perhaps early 16th century, with blank shields set in foliage." The underbowl has arches and foliage; pairs of square flowers on the stem sides; moulded lower base; on a two-step plinth with kneeling extension on both steps.