Bradford, St. Peter's / Bradeford

There is an entry for this Bradford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE1633/bradford/] [accessed 16 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Morris (1932) notes: Very fine font-cover, probably 15th-century", but does not mention the font. Mee (1941) notes: "The modern font has a splendid 15th century cover like a spire, adorned with tracery and pinnacles." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font cover. A spectacular Late Gothic piece, tall, with tall spire, and a filigree of buttresses and tracery (cf. Halifax)." Described and illustrated in James (1985) as an octagonal mounted font of the 15th century. Ryder (1993) reports the font as Victorian "but the font cover is an impressive piece of 16th-century work." The basin is octagonal, very regular, with vertical sides; there is a narrow double band of decorative motif at the upper tim side, and the panels of the sides are decorated with tracery motifs in quatrefoil windows; the chamfered underbowl has foliage motif all around; the pedestal base is octagonal and with vertical sides as well, and has a single blind trefoil arch on each side; the lower base is also octagonal and slightly splayed, decorated with graded moildings. A tall wooden cover covered in tracery and cusped pinacles covers the font.