Salwarpe / Salewarpe / Salewearpe / Salowarpa / Saltwarp / Salwarp / Sulwarp

There are two entries for Salwarpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8762/salwarpe/] [accessed 22 September 2014], but neither of them mentions a cleric or a church in it. Noake (1851) writes: "The tower is at the western end, the foot of it being open to the church and occupied by seats, and a handsome octagonal font, having on each face a branch with two leaves quatrefoiled ; the foot of the font is pyramidal, but the upper part of the pedestal is square, with small circular shafts, engaged, at the angles; the whole being then deeply embedded in paint, but it has since been scraped, and placed within the south aisle." Miller (1890) notes that the chiefly 14th-century church here has "remains sufficient to shew that there was a church in Norman days", though the font itself he reports as "late Tudor". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The earliest part of the present church is the nave arcade, dating from the 12th century. The north aisle is mid-14th-century work, and the south of a few years later", but reports the font as modern. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO8746262072] (1969) reports: "C19 font with square base and octagonal basin". In Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Shallow octagonal bowl with vine trail; possibly C16, re-cut in the C19." [NB: we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church]