Cannington / Candetone / Cantetone

There are three entries for Cannington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST2539/cannington/] [accessed 17 January 2018], one of which, the lord of which was "Erchenger, the priest", reports a church in it. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992): "In 1086 Erchenger the priest held of the king in the church of Cannington ½ virgates which Aelfric the priest had held in 1066 [...] Robert de Curci evidently gave the church c. 1138 as part of the endowment of Cannington priory [...] The north respond of the 12th-century chancel arch, visible in the vestry, and the weathering of the earlier nave roof on the tower, are evidence of the size and form of the church before the 15th century [...] he font is of the early 15th century". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with a rosette inscribed in a pointed quatrefoil on each side; the underbowl is also octagonal, a large Tudor rose on each panel, and parallel mouldings below; octagonal stem with a single trefoil arch or window on each side; moulding below and splaying lower base; octagonal plinth. Octagonal pyramidal wooden cover with crenellated base, decorated sides and foliated finial. [NB: there must have been an earlier font in this church -which was dedicated to St. Mary in 1336, but around since at least Conquest times, according to the VCH and the Domesday survey- but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]