Longdon nr. Tewksbury / Langandune / Langdon / Langedune / Longandune / Longedun / Longedune

There is an entry for this Longdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2241/longdon/] [accessed 14 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noake (1868), who described Longdon Church as "a very sad affair", reports "an Early Norman font" in it. Bond (1908) mentions a wooden font once in use at Longdon church, but "now does duty as a bookstand, and carries an old Bible and Jewell's Apology." Miller (1890) writes: "The church has been rebuilt, but the tower is of the 15th century. The font is modern, but the basement is old, with four columns." Miller (ibid.) notes also a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist here, with a 13th-century font in it. The wooden font is also mentioned In Andrews (1912), probably after Bond. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The font consists of a modern bowl, standing on a pedestal of 12th-century date, composed of four short shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded bases. The upper part of the Saxon font at Deerhurst was in Longdon Church from 1845 to 1870. It was restored to Deerhurst in the latter year, when the lower part of the font was recovered. An 18th-century wooden font has been transformed into a bookstand, [...] on which are kept a copy of Jewell's works published by John Norton in 1611 and a black-letter Bible." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) mention only a neo-Norman font of 1870 [though it is not clear whether the base is still the same one reported in the VCH].