Aston Rowant / Estone

There is an entry for Aston [Rowant] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7299/aston-rowant/] [accessed 31 October 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The church is mostly of D[ecorated] character[...] The font is E[arly] E[nglish], with eight detached shafts." Ditto in Murray (1882). Described as "an interesting, if not beautiful, font" in William Perry's 'Alexander Penrose Forbes' (London, 1939) [source: 222.justus.anglican.org] [accessed 15 October 2008]. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 8, 1964) notes: "The church [...] is a comparatively large building [...] The north and south walls of the nave date from the late 11th or early 12th century [...] In the early 13th century a new doorway, with plain chamfered jambs and pointed arch, was made in the south wall of the nave. The chancel was rebuilt towards the end of the century and retains the two simple two-light windows of the period. To this period also belongs the font, supported on eight detached shafts of Purbeck marble; the basin is decorated with an arcade of recessed lancets". There is drawing of this font in the Bodleian Library [MS. Top. Oxon. a 65, no. 53]. An architectural drawing of this font by H. Dryden, dated 29 October 1886 exists in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection. Described in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C13. Purbeck marble. Octagonal bowl with a blind arcade of lancets, supported on a cluster of shafts." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): no details [source given: Hobart Bird -- IOld Oxforshire Churches, 1932].