Great Steeping / Steeping Magna / Stepinge

There are two entries for [Great] Steeping [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4364/great-steeping/] [accessed 11 November 2018], one of which reports two churches in it [cf. infra]. The entry for this church in Edmund Oldfield's A topographical and historical account of Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, in the County of Lincoln (London: Longman, [etc.], 1829: p. 267) notes: "The font is circular, small and entirely void of circulation." Oldfield (ibid.) refers to two entries for churches in [Great] Steeping in Domesday, but adds that since a portion of Gunby [cf. Index entry for Gunby nr Candlesby] was included in that return, "it is highly probable that one of them was situate in that parish". The entry for the old church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4347663943] notes: "Parish church, now redundant. 1748 on medieval base, restored 1908"; it mentions no font in it. The entry for the new church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4403464344] notes: "Parish church. 1891 designed by William Bassett-Smith. [...] Octagonal bowl and stem font"; no date is given, so presumably contemporary with the modern church. Historic England further lists a medieval cross in the churchyard here [List Entry Number: 1013532]: "The remains of the churchyard cross at the Old Church, Great Steeping, include a medieval carved base surviving in unusually good condition. It is particularly rare in that the carved figures are complete, having escaped mutilation by post-medieval iconoclasts, and due to a long period of partial burial are little weathered. Situated to the south of the nave, the cross is believed to stand in its original position, and archaeological deposits relating to its construction and use will thus survive intact. [...] The monument includes the remains of a standing stone cross located in the churchyard of the Old Church at Great Steeping, formerly the Church of All Saints. The cross is medieval in date and is constructed of limestone. The monument includes the base of the cross and a fragment of the shaft. The base takes the form of a socket stone, approximately 0.8m square in section, now partially buried and standing to a height of about 0.3m above the present ground surface. At each corner of the socket stone is a complete winged figure carved in deep relief symbolising one of the Four Evangelists: on the north east corner a man (St Matthew), on the south east an ox (St Luke), on the south west a lion (St Mark) and on the north west an eagle (St John). Carved on the middle of each side, between the figures, is a plain shield. The socket stone is broken into two pieces, slightly parted, and in the top is a rectangular socket filled with two small fragments of limestone which represent the base of the shaft. Lying on the ground surface adjacent to the east side of the cross is a loose fragment of a cross-shaft, 0.66m long, made of sandstone; this piece is not considered to have been an original part of the cross and is therefore excluded from the scheduling."