Broughton nr. Stoke-on-Trent / Hereborgestone

There is an entry for this Broughton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ7633/broughton/] [accessed 8 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this church in Craig Thornber's Strolling through Staffordshire [www.thornber.net/staffs/html/broughton.html] [accessed 8 November 2017] reports: "The font is unsual in that it is carved into one of the tower supports and may have been a holy water stoup." The entry for this church in the blog site by Highland Host [http://strictandparticular.blogspot.ca/2013/03/old-and-eccentric-churches-3-broughton.html] [accessed 8 November 2017] illustrates the wall-mounted object and notes: "The font, at the back of the Church, is extremely odd - for one thing, it is so positioned as to be impossible for the majority of the congregation to see it, as it is placed in one of the piers of the tower arch. For another, it is clearly a re-purposed something else - namely a pre-Reformation holy water stoup. Tradition says that it came from a demolished monastic Church. It is quite convenient for small private baptisms, of course, which is what it was meant for!"