Eastham nr. Tenbury Wells / Estham

There is an entry for this Eastham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6568/eastham/] [accessed 23 October 2014]; it reports a priest in it, but mentions no church, though there probably was one here. Miller (1890) notes the restored church but mentions no font in it. The font here is noted in Tymms (1834). Noake (1868) notes: "The chancel arch and font, being specimens of some of the best Norman work in the country, were recklessly destroyed in the present century." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a priest, and therefore probably a church, at Eastham in 1086 [...] The nave and western portion of the chancel [of the present church] were built during the first half of the 12th century. [...] The font is of sandstone and has a plain circular 12th-century bowl of cuplike form with a wide fillet near the upper edge and a cable moulding at the bottom; the circular shaft with square blocks at the foot is modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO6569368731] (1966) reports: "Font: C12, large sandstone circular example with wide fillet near upper edge and cable mould at junction of base and stem." Bridges (2000), however, reports a large cauldron-type basin of the Norman period ornamented with rope-moulding motif, now mounted on a 19th-century base. [ref. cited in: www.t-v-s.org.uk]. In Brooks & Pevsner (2007). Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014): "Plain cauldron-shaped bowl, with a fillet at the rim and a cable moulding at the foot. Modern stem."