Steeple Barton / Bertone

There is an entry for [Steeple] Barton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4425/steeple-barton/] [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): "The font is plain, round, but the sides are fluted with very shallow flutes; the base moulding is Decorated". In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Round and fluted; probably C12." Noted in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 11, 1983): "The church was given to Oseney abbey by Roger of St. John between 1186 and 1190 [...] it was almost completely rebuilt in 1850 and 1851. No traces remain of the 12th-century church [...] The plain tub font is probably 12th-century." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2017): "The only known surviving Romanesque feature may be the fluted font [...] Located in the SW corner of the S aisle. A slightly tapered fluted bucket font of oolitic limestone, with a roll moulding at the base that appears to be integral. It stands on a modern chamfered plinth. The flutes are uniform in width, and the rim shows a layer of mortar above the clean top line of the fluting. Viewed from the W, the flutes are 3 mm shorter on the S side compared with the N. This is complemented by the basal roll moulding being thicker on the S side. There is a lead lining extending on to the rim. Several major cracks to the bowl have been repaired and there is also evidence of damage to the rim [...] The fact that the fluted font is very slightly tapered (the upper circumference is 8 cm larger than the lower) rules out the possibility of it being part of a reused Roman column. There are no similar fonts in Oxfordshire."