Kenilworth No. 2 / Chinewrde

There is an entry for Kenilworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2872/kenilworth/] [accessed 28 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports that this church "contains an ancient circular font supported on a single Norman column." The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "Kenilworth was originally part of Stoneleigh and as the latter church was from an early date appropriated to Kenilworth Priory no difficulties would have arisen when the canons built a church here. It is probable that for a century or more after the establishment of the priory the inhabitants of the neighbourhood used the nave of the monastic church, and that a separate parish church was not built until the middle of the 13th century [...] The church of ST. NICHOLAS is situated on the north side of the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey and overlooking a valley which divides the town into two parts. The church consists of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south chapel, south transept, north porch, vestry, and west tower. It dates from the middle of the 14th century; the south arcade was added about the end of the 14th century; the south chapel, vestry, and south transept are modern. [...] The font is circular, of light sandstone, and is dated 1614. The basin has a moulded rim with a running scallop at the top and bottom of the frieze, which has four small rosettes at intervals and the date. Around the tapering stem are eight small attached shafts resting on a plain circular drum moulded at the base. It has a modern carved oak cover." The CRSBI (2015) entry cites F. T. S. Houghton (Pt. 1, trans Vol. 43): "is generally stated to be 12thc. and to have been re-cut in the 17thc". The CRSBI (ibid.) goes on to inform that "the upper part has 1664 inscribed on it. The pedestal has eight half round shafts that fit into scallops in the base, the only part that might conceivably be Romanesque is the plinth."