Great Tew / Church Tew / Tewam

There is an entry for [Great] Tew [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3929/great-tew/] [accessed 21 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "There is a good P[erpendicular] font". Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C15; octagonal bowl with blind tracery, and a panelled base." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon, vol. 11, 1983) notes: "The church was established before the mid 11th century when the village was known as Church Tew [...] Of the 12th-century church only the south doorway survives, [...] but Norman masonry, including what may be the head of a window blocked by the overlapping north aisle, may be seen on the exterior of the north wall of the chancel [...] The font is 15th-century [...] The architect Thomas Rickman restored the church and chancel in 1827-8". Monolithic baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with arches and tracery, a slightly concave underbowl chamfer and an octagonal stem, both with blank panels, all in one single block; the lower base, octagonal and moulded, appears to be a separate block of stone; octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. There is considerable damage to at least one of the panels of the basin, the upper rim area, perhaps related to the forceful removal of the staples from the old cover. Flat wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.