Ashbourne / Ashborne / Esseburne

There is an entry for Ashbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK1846/ashbourne/] [accessed 3 March 2015]; it mentions a priest, a church and church lands in it, and the lords of this part appear as King William and a priest. Early English font the basin of which is ornamented with eight pointed trefoil arches and fleur-de-lis motifs in the spandrels. The base appears as eight "engaged" shafts [i.e., attached to the stem]. In Paley's time, ca. 1844, it rested on the floor "without any steps" (Paley, 1844) but, by Bond's time, ca. 1908, it had been raised on an octagonal plinth with a 'priest-stone' to the side (Bond,1908). Paley (1844) refers his precise dating, "8th of the Kalends of May, 1241" to a brass plate in the church which gives the date of the dedication of church and altar "in honour of St. Oswald, King and Martyr, [...] by Hugh de Pateshul, Bishop of Coventrye" and, since the font "may be fairly considered of the same date", the dating of the font "can be ascertained with accuracy". Noted in Cox (1875-1877) remarks that it is definitely a work of the of Early English period, "a good specimen of the style, and should be compared with that in the adjacent church of Bradley." In Tyrrell-Green (1928) as Early English with a clustered-columns base. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. C13, with trefoil arches and small fleurs de lis standing between them." [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].