Bredon with Bredon's Norton / Bredune / Breedon / Breodum / Breodun / Breuton

[CONFLICT RELATED TO FONT DESCRIPTION -cf. infra- TO BE RESOLVED] There is an entry for Bredon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9236/bredon/] [accessed 23 September 2014]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Poole (1842) notes the font at Bredon, Worcestershire "also hexagonal, and adorned on each face with an escutcheon, charged with arms: [...] and I especially note this ornament in connexion with an hexagonal font, because I think the form and the ornament equally unecclesiastical and barbarous. I can imagine no reason either of symbolical meaning, or of beauty to the eye, [...] which can plead for a six sided figure, in preference to a circle, a square, or an octagon; and as for the ensigns of worldly pomp, and of human pride, on the instruments of initiation into the church of Christ, into the mystical body of Him who was 'despised and rejected of men,' I cannot see any congruity in it at all. And it is worthy of remark, that this inapposite decoration for the font, if decoration it can be called, came into use just when heraldry had lost whatever religion it once had. So long as it was in any sense religious, it was too humble to appear in such a place; but after the conclusion of the Crusades, and with the mock chivalry of the Tudors, with hexagon fonts and debased architecture, first appeared the custom of decorating fonts with armorial bearings." [NB: Poole (ibid.) further elaborates against both the hexagonal shape and the armorial decoration of fonts in his text]. Listed in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal baptismal font decorated with heraldic devices. Noakes (1852) mentions an octagonal font in St. Peter's Church, Bredon. Miller (1890) notes two Norman doorways and two windows of the same period in this church, but mentions no font in it. In Geldart (1899) after Pugin, probably referring to this font. Mentioned in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font with a hexagonal basin or upper slab. Andrew (1912) describes the font as heptagonal, like the font at Warndon. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The original 12th-century church consisted of an aisleless nave, of which a large part still remains, the existing north porch, and a chancel and central tower; but of the two last no traces now remain, with the exception of the western tower arch. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note: "Plain, octagonal, C15; Jacobean cover, with nice scrolls up the edges". [NB: the font visible in the church now [2007] consists of a plain polygonal [heptagonal?/octagonal?] basin with a graded underbowl chamfer, raised on a polygonal pedestal base decorated with trefoiled arches or windows; the cover is an polygonal pyramid with scrolls on the arrises and a ball finial -- is this the same font noted by all? Some of the confusion appears to be related to the fact that there are two locations: Bredon and Bredon's Norton, very close to each other, both with churches dedicated to St. Giles. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) write on Bredon's Norton font: "Plain, heptagonal, perhaps C15, severely scraped."