Hoveton St. Peter / Hofton / Hovetuna

There are two entries for Hoveton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/hoveton-st-john-and-st-peter/] [accessed 28 April 2014], one of which reports two churches and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In this town were two parishes, and two churches, one dedicated to St. Peter, which was a rectory, [...] and appropriated to the abbey of St. Bennet; Albert de Grelley, by deed sans date, gave and released all his right in this advowson to the abbey. [...] The church had been in ruins, and was rebuilt with brick in 1624; it is a small pile, without a chancel." [cf. Index entry for Hoveton St. John for the other church noted in Blomefield] Knott (2006) writes: "There is a delightful font from when the church was new, as Arthur Mee would say". Actually the present font, consisting of a cylindrical basin with inscribed Maltese crosses on the sides, raised on a round pedestal base and an octagonal plinth, is modern, probably from the 19th-century restoration of the building. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 1624 church, or on the one from the original Domesday-time church here].