Upper Slaughter / Sclostre

There is an entry for [Upper] Slaughter [variant spelling] in the Domesdat survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1523/upper-slaughter/] [accessed 6 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is illustrated in Daubeny (1921). The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "Architectural evidence indicates that there was a church at Upper Slaughter by the 12th, perhaps by the 11th century. [...] called St. Mary's in 1403 [...] It was mostly rebuilt in 1877 [...] Much of the original fabric was re-used [...] and the plan of the medieval church was not greatly changed. [...] The deeply sculpted 15th-century font is so large that it is thought that it may have been a 12th century tub-shaped bowl cut down. In 1877 a copy of it was made and the original stood in the churchyard 20 years before being taken back into the church". In Verey & Brooks (1999-2004): "Fonts. A curious feature of Cutt's restoration was that the carved font of c.1400, octagonal with ogee panels, and one of the most beautiful in the county, was faithfully copied and then thrown out. Both are now back in the church." The font now appears as an octagonal baptismal font of the Perpendicular period; the much-damaged upper rim of the basin is chamfered, with a moulding; the vertical sides are decorated with a deeply-carved array of tracery, chiefly trefoils and quatrefoils; plain chamfered underbowl, slightly concave, to a round end [NB: a recent photograph [ca. 2005?] of this by John Salmon, in Steve Bulman's page [www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/churches/u.html], shows that the font has been restored and is now provided with a flat wooden lid with metal ornamentation]. John Wilkes (2007) notes: "The carved font is circa 1400 and is octagonal with ogee panels. An 1886 copy of this font was made by Cutts [i.e., J.E.K. Cutts, Victorian church architect], discarded, then returned to the church. Both fonts are now in the church."