Molesworth / Molesworde / Mulesworth / Mullesworthe

The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 3, 1936) notes: "The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086). Several 12th-century stones preserved in the church seem to indicate a stone church of this period, but the earliest work in situ is the chancel of c. 1275. The nave was rebuilt towards the end of the 15th century, and the tower was added early in the next century. The church was restored in 1884–5, when it is said that the chancel was taken down and rebuilt because its orientation differed from that of the nave. The south porch was rebuilt in 1890; and the tower and west wall of the nave were underpinned in 1931. [...] The modern font has an octagonal bowl on a stem composed of a group of four large and four small engaged shafts with moulded capitals and bases. An early 18th-century font of Renaissance design remains in the churchyard and has a shallow octagonal bowl and octagonal baluster-shaped stem and base." Bentorboxer [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMEM8R_St_Peters_Church_Molesworth_Cambs] [accessed 31 May 2013] notes: "This Church [...] has two fonts [...] One is inside the porch the other inside the main church to the left of the entrance." The two present fonts are modern; the one in the porch is 18th-century [early?] and the one inside looks 19th-century, probably from the 1884-1885 restoration. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].