Woodton is a village in Norfolk, located 10mi SE of Norwich. Standing alone to the NW of the village, the church of All Saints has a 12thc round tower at its W end, and a nave and chancel under a continuous roof. A single aisle was added to the S side of the nave in the early 14thc. The dark marble font is the only feature in the church that could be considered Romanesque, although Pevsner now deems it 13thc. (2000:2, 786).

In Loddon Hundred. A church with twelve acres at Woodton is mentioned in Domesday Book. Ulfkil, a freeman of Eadric’s, was lord of Woodton before the Norman Conquest and also at the Domesday Survey of 1086, by which time Roger Bigod was the tenant-in chief.

The church was restored in 1878-79. According to Pevsner (1962: 1, 389), the font is ‘Norman...but completely recut’. The dating is modified to ‘13thc’ in the second edition (Pevsner 2000:2, 786). Rectangular dark marble fonts with recessed blank arcading occur in the county at Coltishall, Horsford, Reepham and Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe.