Seaton nr. Uppinham / Saeton / Segentone / Segestone / Seieton / Seleton / Seletone / Seton / Seyton

There are four entries of this Seaton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9098/seaton/] [accessed 21 July 2015], two of which mention in priest, but not a church, in them, though there probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list this as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1925) notes: "A priest is mentioned as living on Robert de Toeni's manor in 1086. [...] The oldest parts of the building are the responds of the chancel arch and the south doorway, which date from the first half of the 12th century, and formed part of a church consisting of an aisleless nave which covered the space occupied by the two eastern bays of the present nave, [...] and a short chancel. To this early building a north aisle was added c. 1180–90, the wall being pierced by an arcade of two bays, and early in the 13th century a south aisle of three bays was thrown out, increasing the nave to its present length, and the north arcade and aisle were extended a bay westward, the old respond being re-used and a new pillar and arch similar to those on the south side erected. The old south doorway was at the same time moved outward to its present position. [...] The font and pulpit are modern. The old font had an octagonal bowl, each face carved with a plain cross, but it was discarded and sawn up at the restoration, and its eight sides, stem, and four legs now form the back and supports of a stone seat at the west end of the south aisle."