South Normanton / Normentune

There is an entry for [South] Normanton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4456/south-normanton/] [accessed 14 July 2015], but it mentions niethr cleric nor church in it. Cox (1875) writes: "The font in use (at the time of our visit) is close to the south entrance, and is a pedestal contrivance of comparatively modern date. The fine old font, though not in use, and filled with rubbish, is happily still preserved, and has found a resting-place inside the church at the east end of the north aisle. It is of an octagonal shape, and stands on a similar base. The height of the whole is three feet six inches, and it is two feet four inches in diameter across the top. On one face is carved in bold relief a six-pointed star or mullet, on a second a trefoil, and on the remaining six a quatrefoil. It has a handsome effective appearance, and belongs, we believe, to the Decorated style, of which there are comparatively few specimens." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK4422256961] (1966) reports a "C14 octagonal stone font with quartrefoils to each side of bowl and moulded stem" in it. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. Probably C14. Octagonal, with simple tracery." [NB: the church was re-built in 1862, and the font that Cox saw in use must have been a new one added at the time; the old font must have been restored by the time of Pevsner's visit -- we have no information on the whereabouts of the later font].