Steeple Aston / Estone / Stipelestun

There is an entry for [Steeple] Aston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4725/steeple-aston/] [accessed 15 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this church in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) reports a round baptismal font "with flat patterns of a diamond shape, of various sizes; from the shallowness and character of the work, it appears to be an imitation of the time of Charles II., [i.e., mid- to late-17th cent.] but may possibly be, as many persons consider it, genuine work of the 12th century". Sherwood and Pevsner (1974) note: "Font. Norman, cylindrical, but re-cut at an unknown date with a bizarre pattern of elongated triangles, a kind of abstract expressionism." The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 11, 1983) notes: "The church existed by c. 1180 when Alan son of Geoffrey of Aston promised the advowson to Eynsham abbey [...] The first known rector of Steeple Aston, Henry of Aston (fl. c. 1180), was the brother of the lord of the manor [...] Of the 12th-century church nothing identifiable now remains except, perhaps, at the south-east corner of the nave where the 13th-century aisle is built against the quoins of an unaisled building. The font, decorated with diamond and chevron patterns, may also be of the 12th century, although apparently recut in the later 17th century." [NB: the basin has some areas where the stone has been replaced -- is it a re-tooled font? a copy/replica font?]. The pattern on the sides of this font is almost identical to the one on the font at Glympton, which is only a few kms to the southwest; unlike the latter font, however, the surface of the Steeple Aston font appears as if it had been finished yesterday.