Stoke Gifford / Stoche

There is an entry for Stoke [Gifford] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST6279/stoke-gifford/] [accessed 2 August 2019]; it reports a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. A font here is described and illustrated in Mee (1938): "the Norman font, with a bowl like a great cushion capital, is partly built into a wall". Further notes by Ros Broomhead add that "its dog-toothed pattern was discovered by the Vicar's wife in the 1920s, and was later restored. In the 1950s Douglas Williams made the lid from an oak builder's plank found by Vicar Evans." The font square, of the cushion-capital type, raised on short cylindrical pedestal base and a semicircular plinth. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002, vol. 2: 692) inform that it was "partially built into the N wall of the N aisle in the C18" and date it as "apparently Norman". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST6226179707] notes: "Parish Church. C14, altered mid C18, restored 1894-7 [...] C12 plain scallop font with scratched dog tooth in north aisle wall".