Ipsley / Epeslei

There is an entry for Ipsley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0665/ipsley/] [accessed 24 November 2014]; it reports a priest but does not mention a church in it, though there probably was one there. Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858) notes: "Font. This stands near the west end of the Church, its proper position, and is heptagonal in form, a very unsual plan: the faces are plain, and the top is embattled; at the angles are two projecting balls, which are pierced. The height of the basin is seventeen inches, the width two feet eight inches; the internal diameter two feet, and the internal depth nine inches and a half; it appears to have been recently restored, and is now placed on a modern plain heptagonal shaft, to correspond with the Font, with base mouldings. A baluster stone shaft, with a basin on the top, which formerly, (though contrary to the Canons) served as a substitute for the Font, stands in the tower." Described in Bond (1908) simply as one of several baptismal fonts with a heptagonal basin [NB: Bond gives the county as Warwickshire in the text and Hereford & Worcester in the index locorum - confirmed in Worcs.] The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The church was very thoroughly restored in 1867 [...] but evidence remains that the south aisle was of the 13th century and the north aisle, and probably the chancel, of the 14th century. The west tower was added in the 15th century [...] The font has an early-14th-century octagonal [sic] bowl with a battlemented projecting top-mould, a hollowed under-edge, and two ball-flowers in relief on each angle." In Brooks & Peksner (2007): "Big heptagonal bowl (cf. Warndon); early C14, ballflower up the edges, crenellation round the rim."