Woolstaston / Ulestanes / Ulestanestune / Wolstaston / Wulfstaneston / Umbruntune

There is an entry for Woolstaston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO4598/woolstaston/] [accessed 7 August 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Salopian Shreds and Patches (issue for May 26, 1880:. 44) reports a "large round font" in this church. In his entry for this church, Timmins (1899) illustrates the font and writes: "the most notable feature of the church is a singular pair of fonts, one standing within the other, as depicted in our sketch. Both are evidently very ancient, and of archaic simplicity, the lower and seemingly older one being supposed to have originally belonged to a chapel, long since destroyed, that stood not far from here." [NB: Cranage (part 6., 1903) notes: "Woolstaston, with its strangely rough old font" -- full bibliographical reference not available]. Bond (1908) writes: "At Woolstaston the font is superposed on a pedestal which is said to contain a basin, and to have been itself a font. The font proper has a large round basin molded with a square-edged band in the roughest possible way. It rests on a much larger round block of stone, whose chief molding is rounded, not square, but equally rough; it look slike a Roman base inverted; if so, it may be paralleld with the fonts at Wroxeter and Hexham." Stocker (1997) lists it as an early font bowl set within base of successor, and the base a reused stone from the Anglo-Roman period. The Discover Shropshire website [http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/CCS:MSA7757] [accessed 30 March 2010] notes: "baptistery formed at west end in C19 with benches of 3 sides and font consisting of low C12 basin font and taller C12 font standing inside with C19 wooden cover (one of the fonts is said to have come from the former chapel at Womerton". In his entry for Womerton, Timmins (1899) [cf. supra] adds that it is the older of the two fonts [i.e., basins] now in Woolstaston that used to belong to Womerton. Newman & Pevsner (2006) write: "a cylindrical C12 bowl inside what may be the re-cut base of a Roman column." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO4522398473] notes: "Parish church. Late C12 or early C13, restored in 1864-6 [...] font consisting of low C12 basin font and taller C12 font-standing inside with C19 wooden cover (one of the fonts is said to have come from the former chapel at Womerton)." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "The font consists of a smaller font standing inside a larger one, the latter, thus, forming the base for the former. [...] The lower [i.e., upper] font is carved in white sandstone, or possibly limestone; it is tub-shaped with the bottom section recessed and slightly chamfered. The font is decorated with one band running horizontally. The width of band varies and undulates slightly in places. Numerous chisel marks are visible on the font surface as well as on the font bowl. [...] The lower font is made of white sandstone, or possibly limestone; it is tub-shaped and is chamfer in the lower third. A convex band just below the rim runs horizontally around the font. This font is not as crudely carved as the upper font but there are still traces of chisel marks."