Stanhoe / Stanho / Stanhow / Stoney Hill

There are four entries for Stanhoe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF8036/stanhoe/] [accessed 8 April 2014], one of which reports a church and church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints; in Edward the First's time, a manor and 5 acres belonged to the rectory [...] John de Albini occurs rector in the 6th of Henry III" [i.e., 1222] [NB: there is no mention of the Domesday-period church in Blomefield; was itt in a different holding?]. The present font is a replacement introduced in 1853 according to Pevsner & Wilson (1999), at the time of the mid-19th century restoration of this church; it consists of an octagonal basin with an inscription all around, deeply-cut panels and crenellation underneath, raised on clustered columns with capitals and bases, and a two-step plinth. As Knott (2006) comments, "The 19th century font is rather magnificent in a terrifying kind of way, and you thank God that other East Anglian parishes didn't have the money that was obviously here to replace their surviving medieval ones. It would not be out of place in an Anglo-catholic church in Calcutta or Melbourne." [NB: we have no information on the fonr of the early church here].