Featherstone / North Featherstone / Ferestane

There is an entry for this Featherstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4222/featherstone/] [accessed 16 October 2018]; it reports two priests and two churches in it. Glynne's visit 13 May 1868 (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has a plain octagonal bowl, on an octagonal stem buttressed on alternate sides. On alternate faces of the bowl are heraldic shields and inscriptions, Johes de Baghull and Katerina uxor eius; one shield has the bugler, arms of Winn." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, the inscription on which [cf. Inscription area] probably gives the names of the donors. Morris (1932) notes it as heraldic font with an inscription: "octagonal font, which exhibits on its various faces; (a) ermine a saltire; (b) a plain cross; (c) a quarterly (i) and (iv) quarterly, (i) and (iv) three inciseed fusils, (ii) and (iii) a very rudely scratched spread eagle, (ii) and (iii) a saltire; (d) plain; (e) three heads erased in pale impaling barry of eight, on the second bas (incised) two annulets, on the sixth, one. Above: + Baghill; (f) plain; (g) Ioh[ann]es de Baghill + Katerina uxsor (sic) eius; (h) plain." Noted in Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields and an inscription commemorating Johannes Baghill and his wife." Ryder (1993) describes the stone of the font as "magnesian limestone", repeats the heraldic and inscription details of earlier writers, and adds "the font is said to have been brought here from Pontefract in the Civil War." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4218522090] [accessed 7 November 2018] notes: "Church. Late medieval (probably C15), restored in late C19. [...] C15 font on a pedestal, octagonal with raised carved shields and incised Latin script on the cardinal sides."