Stratton Audley / Stratone

There is an entry for Stratton [Audley] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survery [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6026/stratton-audley/] [accessed 25 October 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Dunkin (1823) writes: "An octagon font, lined with lead, is placed near the southern entrance, which seems to indicate that the inhabitants mostly entered by the southern porch at the time of its erection." The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The church was largely rebuilt in the 13th and 14th centuries, but a 12th-century doorway (now disused) remains in the south wall of the south aisle. It is probably not in its original position [...] The ancient octagonal font is of uncertain date" [VCH footnote: "There is a drawing by J. C. Buckler in MS. Top. Oxon. a 68, f. 523" [i.e., in the Bodleian Library collections]]. In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal; medieval, but of unknown date." The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions a "mediaeval font' in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. The CRSBI (2017) entry for this church notes: "The octagonal tapered font is of uncertain age. Its style and size resembles a similar one at St Edburg's, Bicester, judged to be of C13th origin."