Bradfield St. George

There are three entries for Bradfield [St George, St Clare and Combust] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 14 September 2016], one of which reports a church and church lands in it. Parker (1855) reports a Perpendicular font in Bradfield St. George; no font mentioned in his entry for St. Clare's. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the 15th century; later in the same source (ibid.: 220) it is listed in the Decorated period [1250-1350]. [NB: it is unclear whether this is Bradfield St. Clare or St. George. Cox-Harvey do not specify, nor does Speltz (1910) whose drawing shows an octagonal East Anglian font of the Decorated or Perpendicular period with scenes (?) on the basin sides and the underbowl decorated with angels; the narrower octagonal pedestal has figures inside niches on it; the upper of the two plinths has quatrefoil motifs carved on its sides, four per side. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL9072159932] (1955) notes: "Mid C14 octagonal font with moulded base and traceried facets to bowl." Knott (2008) does not mention a font at St. Clare's [formerly dedicated to All Saints], but includes an interior view of the west end of the nave at St. George's including the font there; the font is not the one described and illustrated in Speltz, but a plainer type: the octagonal basin has pairs of trefoiled arches or windows all around; the octagonal stem has mouldings at the ends, and the lower base is octagonal and moulded as well. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern. [discrepancy with Speltz to be resolved]