Burton Hastings / Bortone

There is an entry for Burton [Hastings] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP4189/burton-hastings/] [accessed 4 July 2019]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951): "There was a priest at Burton Hastings in 1086. [...] The church was granted to Nuneaton priory in the reign of Henry II by Ralph de Tureville [...] Close by in the nave also is a creamcoloured sandstone font. It has a modern stone base but the large block it supports appears to have been carved in the late 15th or early 16th century. The circular top is 2 ft. 4 in. in diameter and the drum tapers slightly downwards, becoming octagonal with round projecting fillets at the angles. At one third of its height the fillets divide, forming eight trefoiled heads over the side panels, and the spaces above are filled mostly with conventional flower-forms. It has a modern timber canopy 2 ft. in height." Described and illustrated in the Parish web site [http://stbotolphsbh.org.uk/church/nave.html] [accessed 31 March 2009]: "The font is made out of sandstone. Text book opinions of its date seem to vary from about 1300 to the early 16th century. Carved around the font are arches with rosettes, fleurs-de-lys and a hammer." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP4098489906] notes: "Church. C14 chancel and parts of tower. Early C16 nave. Tower rebuilt C16. Restored c.1867. C19/C20 porch. [...] font of c.1300, but partly renewed, is octagonal with blind trefoiled arcading, rosettes and fleurs-de-lys, on round base. C19 lid."