Stoke St. Milborough / God-Stoke / Godestoch / Stok / Stoke St. Milburg

There is an entry for Stoke [St. Milborough] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO5682/stoke-st-milborough/] [accessed 8 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Anderson (1864) notes: "From time immemorial, a church has existed here." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO5663482290] (1954) reports a "C12 font with fluted bowl set on C20 stepped plinth." The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "There was a church at Stoke c. 1200, and it seems to have incorporated vestiges of an earlier one. [...] The church of ST. MILBOROUGH, so dedicated by 1740 [...] and perhaps by the 1270s [...] shows signs of several partial rebuildings, not all of them datable or clearly defined. [...] The thick north wall of the chancel, which is aligned on the north-west corner of the earlier nave, is probably late 11th or 12th-century." No font mentioned in the VCH entry. Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Very large, seventeen-sided sandstone bowl. Hard to date." The baptismal font consists of a polygonal [almost round] basin with tapering sides decorated with a concave ribbed pattern all around; raised on a plain round pedestal stem and modern lower base. The wooden cover is round and flat, with handle.