Bierton / Beerton / Bierton with Broughton / Bortone / Burton

There is an entry for Bierton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8415/bierton/] [accessed 25 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Batty (1848) [probably an engraving by P.H. de la Motte from a drawing by E.A.R.] (1848): "A peculiar tub-shaped bowl, with stem of nearly the same circumference, having cable mouldings round the rim and stem, and semicircular moulding with fillet at the depth of the bowl. The plinth, if any, is covered by a modern deal step." Noted in Parker (1850): "The font is plain N[orman], with a cable moulding" [Parker (ibid.) refers to a "lithographic print of the font in Batty's Fonts"]. Sheahan (1862) informs that it was "re-lined with lead in 1855". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The circular font is rather plain, with a cable moulding round the top, and of late 12thcentury date." The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912) notes: "Font: circular bowl, tub-shaped, with cable mouldings, late 12th-century." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a mounted baptismal font of the Norman period ornamented solely with a rope moulding. Tyrrell-Green (ibid.) gives a list of such fonts which includes: Bierton (Bucks.), Egloskerry (Cornwall), Launcells Cornwall), Tremaine (Cornwall), Wick (Glam), Tresmere (Cornwall), Notgrove (Gloucs.), Folkton (NYorks.), Backwell (Somerset), Congresbury (Somerset). Noted in Pevsner (1960). Noted in the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, Recent Grants [...] 16 March 2006 [www.historicchurches.org.uk]: "Font is late Saxon/early Norman, probably from earlier church on site."