Bishops Tachbrook / Bishop's Tachbrook / Taschebroc

There is an entry for [Bishops] Tachbrook [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3161/bishops-tachbrook/] [accessed 13 January 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "There was a priest attached to the bishop's manor of Tachbrook in 1086 [...] and the advowson of the church remained in the hands of the bishops. [...] The building is of mid-12th-century origin [...] The font in the south aisle is modern but under the tower arch is set a much damaged tapering round fontbowl which was replaced in the church in 1928; the lower edges have been hacked back to form an octagon." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): baptismal font consisting of a much damaged basin perhaps of the 12th century mounted on a modern pedestal base; "the bowl is round with a faceted underside (six scalloped faces)", made of a "fossil bearing limestone" (ibid.) The Parish web site [www.bishopstachbrook.com/st-chads/history-of-st-chads] [accessed 13 January 2015] reports: "The two fonts are situated either side of the entrance from the South porch. To the left (West) is the more recent one with a carved wooden cover. To the right (East) is a much older one which does not have a cover and is thought to be of Saxon or early Norman origin. Mounted now on a modern plinth, this old font was lost for many years but was found in nearby Chapel Hill Farm and restored to the church, somewhat battered, in 1928."