Churchover / Wavre

There are four entries for Churchover [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP5180/churchover/] [accessed 17 August 2024], none of which mentions priest or church in it. Described in British History Online / A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6, Knightlow Hundred. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1951 [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp62-64#h3-s3] [accessed 17 August 2024]: "The 12th-century font [...] is a truncated inverted cone with a roll-moulding on the bottom edge, and cable ornament between two roll-mouldings on the upper edge. The base is modern, and the bowl itself shows slight modern repairs. The tall octagonal wooden font-cover is dated 1673; each panel has a formalized foliage design." Described and illustrated in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/wa/churc] as a Romanesque baptismal font: "the bowl is tub-shaped and circular with shallow cable moulding between two shallow rolls at the top and an angle roll at the bottom. The bowl is lead lined. Of red sandstone". This same source identifies the round pedestal base as modern. Described as a baptismal font from the Norman period in the Rugby Borough Council's Official Guide [web version]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP5104480811] notes: "C15 with C12 origins, but mostly rebuilt 1896 [...] Norman font to centre of nave with carved polygonal cover dated 1673." Notes and illustrated in Walwyn [https://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/4112451029/] [accessed 17 August 2024]: "The font bowl is Norman so that would be C12 or about 850-900 years old. The plinth is late Victorian 1896."