Newton St. Petrock / Newton Saint Petrock / Niwantun / Niwetone

There is an entry for Newton [St Petrock] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS4112/newton-st-petrock/] [accessed 18 August 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Stabb (1908) writes: "The font is of rather unusual shape, a deep circular bowl, with hardly any shaft, and plinth with the corners cut away." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1918): "This font is similar to Clawton and Tetcott; a round bowl, a low shaft, and a cushion-shaped base, but it has no ornament on either bowl or base, though under a casing of cement there seem traces of some pattern on the western face of the base. The font is very interesting; it seems to have been produced by an earnest workman with inadequate tools. The bowl is not a perfect circle, its diameter varies from 25 to 26 1/2 inches. It is made of a hard stone, probably polyphant, but the surface is disguised by cement and remnants of dark brown paint. As in other polyphnt fonts there is no lining; it is not needed in the case of a hard stone. The plinth is modern, on a step inlaid with fine old tiles." In Pevsner (1952): "Font. Norman, shapeless big circular bowl on short shaft." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS4113012236] notes: "Parish church. The Early English windows to the chancel along with the Norman font suggest the origins of the Church but it was largely remodelled in the C15 and early C16 century when the south aisle and porch were also added. The form of the tower suggests it might be pre- Perpendicular. [...] Restored and enlarged in 1887". The entry for this church in the RCSBI (2019) notes: "The only 12thc. feature is the font. [...] Located at the W end of the S aisle. The font has a modern chamfered plinth, and a base in the form of an inverted cushion capital. This supports a short stem and a deep, egg-cup shaped bowl. The font, which may be of Polyphant stone, is unlined and has a central drainage hole. There are heavy vertical tooling marks visible across the surface, and repairs to the S and W faces. The bowl appears to be coated with a type of varnish.