Cleeve Prior / Clive / Clive Prioris / Clyve / Prior's Cleeve / Priors Cleve

There is an entry for Cleeve [Prior] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0849/cleeve-prior/] [accessed 23 September 2014]; it reports a priest and church lands, but does not mention a church here, though there probably was one. Noake's 1854 edition of The Rambler... reports a plain octagonal in the chancel [NB: not included in the author's 1848 ed. -- full reference not available [quoted from www.cleeveprior.org.uk/history/stories/story.asp?ChapterID=19&ArticleID=57 [accessed 21 May 2010]]. Miller (1890) notes five windows and a doorway of the 12th century in this church; the font, he adds, "is octagonal, late 14th century, and a circular base, the remains of the old font." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP0878249324] (1959) reports a "C14 font on older base" in this church. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "At the time of the Domesday Survey there was a priest at Cleeve Prior who held 1 hide of land. [...] From the earliest date of which we have record the advowson of the church belonged to the priory of Worcester [...] The earliest work visible is a 12th-century buttress at the north-east angle of the nave. It is probably not in situ [...] The font has an octagonal bowl with a moulding round the lower edge and a stem of the same form", and the church interior plan shows the font located beneath the tower [NB: the font, as seen at present [April 2010] does not appear to have any moulding; it does show several repairs to the sides]. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) have: "Plain, octagonal, probably C14."