Radway / Radwei / Radweia / Rodewei

There are three entries for Radway [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3648/radway/] [accessed 13 January 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The church of Radway was appropriated to the Abbey of Stoneleigh before 1291 [...] rebuilt on a new site in 1866"; no font mentioned. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP3681648080] (1967) reports a "Stone font with lobed bowl and composite stem" in this church. The Warwickshire County Council site [http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?monuid=WA694] [accessed 13 January 2015] notes: "The site of the Medieval Church of St Peter which was the parish church in Radway. It was rebuilt on a different site in 1886. The remains of the Medieval Church are still visible, as are some grave stones and a memorial. The site is located to the south of the present Church." The present baptismal font in the new church consists of a quatrefoi-shaped basin of vertical sides raised on a stem formed by a cluster of columns and a moulded lower base; the front side of the basin has a star-shaped symbol on it; there are curlicues on the underbowl; the upper rim side has a running inscription; flat wooden cover of the same shape as the basin. The font appears late-Victorian, of the late-19th century, the date of the new church. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original medieval church now in ruins; a Norman piscina was found among the ruins, suggesting a church founded soon after 1086].