Barrow-upon-Soar / Barhou [Domesday] / Barrow upon Soar / Barrow-on-Soar

There is an entry for Barrow [-upon-Soar] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK5717/barrow-upon-soar/] [accessed 15 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Paley (1844) as reports a "very handsome" font of the Transitional period" decorated with "toothed-moulding" here. The Holy Trinity Church web site [www.holytrinitybarrow.org.uk] informs: "The font is modern and is housed in the Baptistry, situated under the tower at the west end." The modern font here is documented in the Barrow upon Soar Heritage Group site [www.busca.org.uk/heritage/articles/holy-trinity-church-memorials/018-font-font-cover-ivy-brookes-d-1990.html] [accessed 15 April 2019]: "The octagonal bowl has a bevelled lip above and below a moulded frame with quatrefoil enclosing a moulded flower with four leaves entering the quatrefoil. Below the lip are eight more moulded flowers and leaves on a block sloping down to a smaller octagonal column with inset gothic arches culminating in a moulded rim with a flute and an octagonal base. This sits on a large octagonal base with a step to the west with an unusual shape; all sitting on a larger octagonal base. There is a brass plaque on right hand side of the font cover. The wooden octagonal font cover has four crosses joined together to make a central cross used to lift it. This cover replaced one which was given by the children of the church in 1923. Its weight was damaging the font. -- Font: Lime stone, cover wood. -- Font :early 20th century, cover late 20th century -- Cover 70 cm diameter. Plaque 4cm x 2.5 cm -- Cover designed and made by Mr Tony Revell". [NB: it appears that the old font was replaced in the major restoration that took place towards the end of the 19th century, part of which consisted of the new tower ca. 1870]