Snetterton / Ashby / Essebei / Snetretuna / Snisterton / Snistertuna

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Snetterton, in the Confessor's time, was two towns; the south part of it, with All-Saint's church, was known by the present name, but the north part, with St. Andrew's church thereto belonging, was then called Essebei, or Ashby, and continued that distinction at the Conqueror's survey, and some time after. [...] SNETRETUNA, SNISTERTUNA, SNISTERTON, or SNETTERTON, as it is now called, is a village lying between Harpham and Lerling, and had in it two parish churches, one dedicated to all the Saints, and the other to St. Andrew the Apostle, which is now down, and the ruins with difficulty found in the Hall-Yard. The Church of All-Saints, the present parish church, is a good building, having its nave, north isle, north porch, south porch, and chancel leaded, a square steeple, and four bells." Blomefield (ibid.) further notes that the first reported rector of All Saints was "Mr. Tho. de Ingaldesthorp", in 1257, while the first recorded rector of the disappeared St. Andrew's was "Sir William Le Parker", in 1257. The Domesday entries for both towns, Asby and Snetterton, are quoted in Blomefield (ibid.), but neither of them survey a church or a priest in them. There is no mention of a font in Blomefield's entry for Snetterton. A font in this church is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. C14 bowl with encircled quatrefoils and tracery patterns." Illustrated in context in Knott (2008). The tracery appears to be pairs of arches on alternate sides with the quatrefoils; moulded underbowl; trefoiled arches or windows on the octagonal stem, moulded lower base also octagonal; on a polygonal plinth. The wooden cover is flat and plain, probably modern.