Pucklechurch / Pokelchurch / Pokeleschyrch / Pulcrecerce / Pulcrescerce

There is an entry for Pucklechurch [variant spelling] in Folio 165r of the Great Domesday Book [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6976/pucklechurch/] [accessed 16 May 2015] but, despite the name of the place, it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is listed in Tymms (1834). Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Margaret (nee Knight) Odrowaz-Sypniewska [www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/BritRoyals.html] states: "Sir Edward Dering had the font in Puckley Church [sic] re-cut to incorporate his arms, and laid a series of forged family brasses in the style of the late medieval period, in the church chancel". [NB: it is not clear which of the 'Edward Derings' this referes to -- the first Sir Edward Dering, baronet, lived between 1598 and 1644, and the last baronet with that name we could locate is Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, 8th Bt, who died in 1874]. Verey & Brooks (1999-2003) note: "Fonts. One by Carpenter [i.e., R. C. Carpenter, responsible for some of the renovation work here between 1846 and 1856] with a round foliage-carved bowl supported on shafts, resembles the late C13 font at All Saints, Leicester. -- The other is baluster-shaped, probably C18." [NB: by all appearances the main font here is 19th-century; the only part that looks older is the plinth, which may perhaps be much older].