Stretton / Stratone / Stratthon / Stratton / Strattun / Stratune / Stretton bithe Strete / Stretton in le Strete / Stretton in the Strete

There are two entries for this Stretton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9415/stretton/] [accessed 20 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "In an inquisition of the lands of the Templars in 1185, the church of Stretton appears under Lincolnshire as the gift of Robert de Brus (de Bruis) [...] Of the original aisleless 12th-century church only the south doorway and some portion of the walling remain. The doorway has a moulded semicircular arch on nook shafts with simple cushion capitals and moulded bases. The capitals have chamfered abaci (that on the east side enriched with double billet) and cabled neck mouldings, but the shafts are without ornament. The tympanum [...] is quite plain: on its upper part is a scratch dial. [...] The late 12th-century font has a rectangular bowl with slightly curved sides and a round moulding at each angle; (fn. 109) it stands on a modern stone base and has a flat cover." Pevsner (1984) writes: "Font. E[arly] E[nglish]. Square or nearly square. The slightly rounded surfaces divided by vertical strips or rolls."