Tattersett / Gatesend / Tatersete

The Domesday survey entry for "Tatersete" cited in in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "two churches, with 40 acres", and mentions a deed of confirmation of the church of St. Andrew to the monks of Castleacre by one "Ralph of Pencheneia [...] of the family of De Pinkenye, lords of this town [...] deed, sans date, in the reign of Henry II.[i.e., 1154-1189] as it seems." Blomefield does not provide any description of the two churches, their rectors/vicars or their fate [cf. infra]. The fabric of the present church is probably 13th-century. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. C15, octagonal." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "The font is plain, of the early 14th century". The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, the underbowl chamfer slightly concave and moulded, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base and a narrow modern plinth. The wooden cover consists of lower octagonal box-shaped volume with carved sides, and eight ribs converging on a finial; appears modern. [NB: there may have been an earlier font contemporary with the founding of the church in the 13th century; there was another medieval church, St. Andrew's, in the area at Sengham, which is reported in Blomefield (1805), but it has long been in ruins and we have no information on its font; the chapel of ease at nearby Tatterford dates from the mid 19th century and has a neo-Norman font of that date]