Goadby Marwood / Goadley Marwood / Godeby Maureward / Goltebi / Malruard

There are two entries for Goadby [Marwood] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7826/goadby-marwood/] [accessed 12 August 2015], one of which mentions two priests in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Octagonal unmounted font in the Decorated style of the 14th century. Each side of the basin is ornamented with window tracery of the simple round moulding which Paley (1844) identifies as "so characteristic of the period". Paley (ibid.) reports that the font "has been restored after much mutilation, as well as the seventeenth century oak cover" and comments about "two large grooves, cut two inches deep", at 90-degree angles from the staple and hinge into the upper surface of the rim, "but for what purpose it is impossible to tell" (ibid.). Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-1872 reports "an ancient font" in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Decorated period [NB: the placename changes its spelling notably. Upcott uses "Godeby Maureward"; C&H list the site as "Goadley Marwood"; etc.] Bond (1908) describes the approach in the decoration of this font: "the extraordinary course was adopted of filling the faces with specimens of the diversified window tracery of the day". Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of group of 14th-century fonts in the Decorated style ornamented with varied patterns of blind tracery (in this group are: Offley in Herts.; Weobley in Hereford; Goadby Marwood and Noseley in Leics.; Barrowby, Carlton Scroope and Haydor in Lincs.; Northampton St. Peter's; Kiddington, Bloxham and Woodstock in Oxon.;Brailes in Warwick, and Patrington in Yorkshire). Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, early C14, with eight different patterns of current tracery -- a little pattern book, as it were (cf. Great Stretton, Harby)