Kidderminster / Chideminstre / Chiderminster

There is an entry for Kidderminster [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8376/kidderminster/] [accessed 18 September 2014] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) gives the first recorded vicar of the church here as "Johannes Ulbeton ... 1280", but mentions no font in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period [NB: the church is not identified in C&H]. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) identifies "the large font" at St Mary & All Saints as modern, and does not mention the earlier font. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) reports a font of 1872-1874 by William Jeffrey Hopkins, from his renovation of this church, and a font canopy of 1991-1992, by Ronald G. Sims. [NB: did Cox & Harvey [cf. supra] get the wrong date for the font? [an unlikely possibility, if they saw the font themselves, as it is clearly a Victorian piece. Was there an earlier font from the medieval church? -- the other churches in Kidderminster are reported with modern fonts in Brooks & Pevsner (ibid.): the font at the Holly Innocents', on Stouport Rd, is of 1866 by William Forsyth, originally from Areley Kings; the font at St. George's, on Coventry St., is of 1936; the neo-Norman font at St. John the Baptist's, on Bewdley Rd., is also modern].