Duston / Dustone

There is an entry for Duston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7261/duston/] [accessed 9 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Mee (1945) writes: "massive Norman font with fluting carved round the base of the bowl." [NB: the measurements, as given in the CRSBI site [cf. below], do not support Mee's use of 'massive']. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Norman. The lower half of the bowl fluted." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "In the S aisle, W of the S doorway. The lead-lined bowl is inaccurately circular, plain in the upper part, which has a roll rim, and tapered in the lower part, which is decorated with vertical fluting with a scalloped upper edge. The lower rim has a square moulding. The bowl stands on a circular chamfered plinth, and this on a circular step and a modern square step [...] The font at Eydon also has fluting in its lower part, and is even less accurately shaped than this one". The CRSBI dates it to the 12th century. The Parish web site [http://www.duston.org.uk/stlktour.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007] informs: "To the left of the south doorway is the font, carved from a block of Norman limestone, surmounted by a cover presented by the Sunday School in 1902, as a replacement for one which had disappeared at an unknown time in the past."