Halford nr. Stratford-upon-Avon

We found no entry for Halford in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County Histoy (Warwick, vol. 5, 1919) notes: "The early history of the church is rather obscure [...] but the nave dates from about 1150, as shown by the chancel arch and two doorways. [...] The font, probably 14th-century, is octagonal; the bowl is deep with a splayed lower edge, and has in each face a shallow trefoiled ogee-headed panel with foiled spandrels. The stem has a top roll-mould and the base is chamfered. It has a 16th-century tall oak pyramidal cover with crocketed ribs at the angles and a central finial carved with five mitred heads." A font here is noted and illustrated in the Parish website [www.halfordparishcouncil.co.uk/church.aspx] [accessed 8 April 2010]: "14th Century Font with a 16th Century wooden cover". Baptismal font consisting of a polygonal basin with vertical sides decorated with a simple tracery head on each side [perhaps filled earlier with a painted scene or figure?]; chamfered underbowl; plain polygonal stem. The wooden cover is pyramidal, with crocketed arrises; appears Victorian. [NB: the original fabric of the church goes back to the Norman period but we have no information on the earlier font of this church].