Bitchfield / Billefelt / Billesfelt

There are three entries for Bitchfield [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9828/bitchfield/] [accessed 20 May 2019], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Fowler (1876a) writes: "The font is octangular in plan, and of the Decorated style. Round the upper part of its bowl is a border of varied carved work. On one of its panels is carved a quatrefoil within a roundel, with a shield in the centre bearing the emblems of our Lord's Passion, and on the others a bannered crosier springing from two wings, a shield bearing a cross plain between four crescents, another bearing a saltire, another a cinquefoil, another a bend charged with a quatrefoil, and another a bar. At the base of a little shallow niche, or panel, worked in the stem of this font, appears a miniature chalice." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a "noteworthy example" of Decorated period fonts. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with flat quatrefoils with shields and above them a nice frieze of fleurons and trails. The stem has an arched panel with a tiny chalice in it." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9830728396] notes: "Parish church. C11, C12, early and late C13, C14, C16, 1873 chancel rebuilt, C19, C20 boiler room. [...] C16 octagonal font having quatrelobe panels with the symbol of the passion and other devices, with a top frieze of flowers and other tendrils."