Stow-on-the-Wold / Edwardstow? / Stow St. Edward

No individual entry for Stow-on-the-Wold found in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1925/stow-on-the-wold/] [accessed 16 August 2015]. A font here is described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of several attempts during the Stuart period "to go back to earlier precedent"; this case and the one of the Ruardean font, adds the same source (ibid.), "were productive of somewhat clumsy results". The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "A reference to the church of St. Edward in Stow in 986 seems not altogether reliable: the charter confirming the grant allegedly made then is thought to be spurious. [...] There is no architectural evidence of the existence of the church before the 12th century, [...] but by 1086 there was a priest and the town's name, Edwardstow, reflected the invocation of the church. [...] By 1476 the invocation was tacitly assumed to be to the Confessor, [...] although he was not canonized for nearly 100 years after 1086. [...] To know which St. Edward gave the church its name would help to determine the date of its foundation. It seems most likely to have been Edward the Martyr, if only because other suggested possibilities are far-fetched. [...] The goblet-shaped octagonal font is late 16th-century." The VCH reference to the font is footnoted: "'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xlvii. 169 and plate III." The font consists of an octagonal basin tapering and rounded at the lower sides and underbowl, mouldings at the junction with the octagonal pedestal base, itself splaying to a moulded lower end; raised on a plinth, the upper volume octagonal, the lower one rectangular.