North Wingfield No. 1 / North Winfield / Northwynfeld / Winnefelt

Cox (1875) writes: "Of the church existing at the time of the Domesday Survey, there are no remains in the present structure, unless it be the discarded font […] we find beneath a spout of the north aisle, the old massive font. On the occasion of one of our visits, it was full of water, and was being used as a wash-hand-bason by the lads of the church school in their dinner hour. From the systematic work in which they went to work -soap even not being absent- it was evident that this the purpose to which it is generally applied […] The font is of rude early construction, the base being channeled in flutings, and the whole of one block of grit-stone. It is very possible that it may have been the font of the church which was there existent at the time of the Domesday Survey. The present font isn ugly octagon construction, quite out of keeping with the church, and bearing the date 1662." [cf. Index entry for North Wingfield No. 2 for the 17th-century font]