Chadshunt / Cedeleshunte / Chadsunt

There is an entry for Chadshunt [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3452/chadshunt/] [accessed 5 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a shallow Norman basin ornamented with a blind arcade of round intersecting arches; the base is described as "elaborate early Gothic". The basin has suffered damage to the upper rim [on which some ornamental motif that includes perhaps human heads can be seen] and does not match the base in size either; it looks as if the base was meant for a much larger object. [NB: Bond spells the name of this location "Chadsunt" in both the text and the caption, and does not list it in the index locorum under either spelling]. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The advowsons of the churches of Chadshunt and Bishop's Itchington were early attached as prebendal benefices to the precentorship of Lichfield Cathedral. When, in 1155–9, [...] Walter Duredent collated himself to the Prebend of Chadshunt and Itchington, mention is made of the fact that the previous holder, William de Vilers, was Precentor of the Cathedral [...] The nave is of mid-12th-century origin and retains the original north and south doorways [...] The font has a 12th-century round bowl; the sides are carved with an interlacing arcade and the moulded top edge is enriched with a kind of dog-tooth ornament. The base-mould of the bowl is of three cable-beads. The base has a 13th-century 'hold-water' mould and it is set on a sub-base which has a plain round mould above a splay." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) as a font that "clearly belongs in the 13thc. (dogtooth, multiple moulded plinth) but is included as a late example of a common form of 12thc. arcaded decoration". The basin is lead-lined. Noted with a photograph in FLICKR from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/278334269/] [accessed 2 August 2007]