Braunstone / Brantestone / Braunston / Braunstone nr. Leicester

There is an entry for Braunstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5502/braunstone/] [accessed 10 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Leicester, vol. 4, 1958) notes: "In the 12th century Braunstone church was a chapel dependent on the parish church of Glenfield. The chapel is first mentioned in a document which is not later than 1168. [...] The greater part of the church of ST. PETER, as it existed in 1956, was built in the 14th century. [...] The font, now in the west aisle of the extension, is built up with an inverted basin of a plain circular 13th-century font supporting a basin made from a 14th-century octagonal moulded capital of an arcade pillar." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Heavily moulded, octagonal." The Parish web site [www.stpetersbraunstone.org.uk/?page_id=16] [accessed 27 March 2009], however: "the ancient octagonal font seems to be laid on top of an even older font, placed upside down."