Frampton-on-Severn / Frantone

There is an entry for Frampton [-on-Severn] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO7407/frampton-on-severn/] [accessed 10 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is noted in Andre (1882) as a "leaden font" of the Norman period. In Lethaby (1893). Cox & Harvey (1907) write: "The effective decoration on these fonts is in high relief; it comprises a band of foliage at the top and bottom, and between them an arcade with alternate figures and scroll-work." The arches, capitals and columns of the arcade are all ornamented with varied motifs. The two figures visible in another source [cf. infra] are of sitting bearded long-haired male figures, a book held by the left hand and leaning on the left knee, the right hand raised in benediction; also in an illustration in Bond (1908), who dates the font to the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. In Fryer (1908). Illustrated in Crossley (1941). Described and ilustrated in Zarnecki (1957) who dates it to the third quarter of the 12th century. Noted and illustrated in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) as one of six 12-century Norman lead fonts in Gloucestershire; 19th-century stone support. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "The reference to the Vicar of Frampton in 1228 [...] is the earliest known record of the church there; the only part of the fabric of the church that is clearly of an earlier date is the font, described below, which may either survive from a 12thcentury church at Frampton or have been brought from elsewhere. [...] The font has a lead bowl apparently of the third quarter of the 12th century, one of a group of six Gloucestershire fonts from the same blocks." This last reference in the VCH after Zarnecki (1957) [cf. supra].