Stogumber / Warverdinestoch

There is an entry for Stogumber [variant form of name] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0937/stogumber/] [accessed 2 April 2018]; it reports a church in it. Pevsner (1958) writes: "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils." The wooden font cover is Victorian. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "The church of Stogumber, known in 1086 as the church of St. Mary of Warverdinestoch, had been supported by a large estate, suggesting that it had been a minster [...] The lower stages of the tower and the western bay of the south nave aisle are of the late 13th or early 14th century and, with the possible exception of the east end of the chancel, are all that survived extensive rebuilding and enlargement in the 15th century [...] The stone pulpit and font are contemporary with the rebuilding and extension." One of the basin sides is left rough, as if the font had originally been intended to fit against a wall; even the lower base on that side is flatter, and sculpted with the same idea in mind.