Shenington / Senendone / Senendune / Shennington

There is an entry for Shenington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3742/shenington/] [accessed 18 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) notes that the church here "belonged to the Abbey of Tewksbury", and had been recently restored at his time, but had retained the old Norman chancel arch; the font, however, is reported modern. Baptismal font in the Perpendicular style consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with quatrefoils in square panels, the upper and lower rims thickly moulded; the slender stem is also octagonal, the sides with trefoil windows or panels. Octagonal wooden cover, low-dome shaped with tall central spire. [NB: a communication from John Wilkes cites the following [original source unknown, but probably taken from the church itself]: "The Font. Buckler's drawing of 1823 (in the Bodleian Library) shows a Norman font placed beside one of the pillars in the nave. The Victoria County History states that in 1879 a new font, made before 1821, was removed from the chancel to the west end of the south aisle. Perhaps there were two fonts for a while, an old and a new. A family tradition has it that Eber Clifton, a mason employed at the 1879 restoration, erected the new font and was the first to be baptised in it -- that is, presumably in its new position"]. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) note: "Font. Probably of ca. 1800. A small octagonal bowl with quatrefoils on each face, on a slender panelled base."