Greatford / Gretford / Griteford / Griteforde / Gritford

There are three entries for Greatford [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0811/greatford/] [accessed 11 November 2018] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0860611964] notes: "Parish church. Cll, early and late C13, C14, C17, restored c.1854. [...] Fittings. Chancel wooden screen of 1913. All other fittings are C19 including the octagonal font" [NB: strange date assignation; the basin is late medieval; the base is quite likely 19th-century]. The entry for this church in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 11 November 2018] comments: "How could two editions of Pevsner fail to describe this unusual font?". Indeed! The baptismal font here consists of a square basin with chamfered corners and deeply carved scenes framed in trple arcades on the sides; the north side has a seated figure possibly holding a scroll; it has been identified by some as a Majestas Domini; on the south side a seated figure holds a smaller figure that reaches up to touch the chin of the larger figure; up on the right and left are the Sun and the Moon; the composition would suggest a Madonna and Child, but the larger figure appears to be bearded; on the east side are six kneeling figures in a prayer stance; one source suggests they are the donors; the west side of the basin has a Death-like supine figure with two smaller figures in the background that appear to be wrapping or unwrapping its long quasi-skeletal body; the trefoiled arcade that frames each of the four scenes has decorated spandrels, birds (?) and rosettes, and more rosettes are carved on the chamfered corners of the basin, most of the either damaged or broken off; the lower corners of the basin have four protruding human heads on the underbowl; two of them appear to be mitred bishops, the other two crowned kings (?) but at least two of them are badly damaged; the inner well of the basin is round and has a new metal lining in it; the north side has visible damage to its upper rim, the kind consistent with breakage caused by expaning metal staples of an old cover; it has been crudely repaired; the base and plinth are modern. No font cover present. [NB: we have looked for information on the font in the usual sources but it appears to have been ignored by them].