Walsgrave on Sowe / Walsgrave-on-Sowe

There are two entries for [Walsgrave-on-]Sowe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3781/walsgrave-on-sowe/] [accessed 11 March 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a bucket-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period/style; the sides of the basin are ornamented with a blind arcade of round arches. Bond (ibid.) describes the capitals of the arcade as inverted cushion capitals. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 8, 1969) notes; "Sowe chapel was on the ancient estate of Coventry Priory, and was not one of the Chester chapels granted to the priory in the 12th century. [...] The chapel and chaplain are first called the church and the vicar in the early 17th century. [...] The font in the present church is the only visible survival of the Norman building. [...] [the church] dates mainly from the 14th and 15th centuries, but retains its Norman font. [...] The parish registers, which begin in 1538 and are complete [...] The 12th-century font is circular and is carved with arcading in shallow relief; it closely resembles the font at St. Mary Magdalen, Wyken." Described and illustrated as a mounted font [in March 1995] in the CRSBI (2015): the font is made of red sandstone; the arcade is noteworthy for having columns that share neither jambs nor imposts, and for having bases to the columns created by a simple incised line all around. The basin appears in 1995 mounted on a plain circular base and a similarly shaped plinth. This whole structure is now raised on a second plinth of modern date.