Coln Rogers / Colne on the Hills / Culne Rogers

There is an entry for Coln Rogers in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0809/coln-rogers/] [accessed 7 February 2019]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Noted in Fryer (1913) as a font made of Cotswold stone. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman tub on a scalloped base, scraped and refaced in the C19." The entry for this parish in Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "Coln Rogers church was built before the Conquest [...] and a priest was a tenant of the manor in 1086. [...] Both chancel and nave are pre-Conquest, probably of the mid 11th century [...] The font, which dates from the early 12th century, has a large plain tub-shaped bowl on a scalloped base and has been scraped and refaced." [NB: this latter reference is footnoted: "Trans. B.G.A.S. xxxvi. 169, 176–7."] The wooden font cover is round and flat, with a knob handle; also modern. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "The church has a Saxon nave and chancel, which have survived almost intact. The interior of the N doorway still exhibits Saxon work", and reports and illustrates "a tub-shaped font [...] located immediately W of the S doorway. An undecorated tub-shaped bowl was cut from a single block of reddish stone tapered from the wider rim to the narrower bottom, and placed above a scalloped octagonal base. Retooling is visible on the surface, repairs apparent to N and S of the rim. The interior of the bowl has a smooth surface, with lead lining in the bottom and a drain hole. The base has one large scallop per side of the octagon, and heavy coarse diagonal tooling. A repair on the top edge of the N scallop is directly beneath the font bowl repair." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP0873909685] notes: "Anglican parish church. C11, C12, C13. Late Perpendicular. [...] Early C12 tub font with a scalloped base, scraped and refaced 19 inside the south door." [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the pre-Conquest church].