Hartlebury / Hartilbury / Heortlabiri / Heortlanbyrig / Herclebery / Herthulbury / Hertlebur / Hertlebyr / Hertylburie / Huerteberie / Hurtbery / Hverteberie

There is an entry for Hartlebury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8470/hartlebury/] [accessed 24 September 2014]; it reports a priest but does not mention a church in it, though there probably was one in it. Miller (1890) writes: "The font is ancient and probably Norman". A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "A priest at Hartlebury is mentioned in 1086,[...] and the church was granted by Bishop Samson in 1097 to the monks of Worcester [...] In 1148 Bishop Simon confirmed to them the church with a chapel and lands belonging. [...] Bishop Giffard consecrated a church at Hartlebury in honour of St. James the Apostle in 1269. [...] . The [present] building is almost completely modern, having been designed by Rickman in 1836, and as such is not without interest. [...] Only the lower part of the bowl of the font is original 12th-century work. It is circular with nail-head ornament." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) write that the font was restored in the 1878 renovation by Frederick Preedy: "half of the bowl is C12, the rest by Martyn & Emms" [a firm based in Cheltenham that carried out church restorations in the 19th century]. The churches of All Saints and St. Mary are both modern.