Newbold-on-Avon / Newbold-upon-Avon / Newebold

There is an entry for Newbold[-on-Avon] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP4877/newbold-on-avon/] [accessed 12 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it [cf. infra]. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "The church and tithes of Newbold-on-Avon were given to the abbey of St. Nicholas, Angers, by Geoffrey de Wirce [i.e., Geoffrey de la Guerche (Wirce), ca.1040] and were therefore part of the endowment of that abbey's cell, the priory of Monks Kirby. [...] The church [...] dates from the 15th century and is built on the site of an earlier one [...] The font, standing in the centre of the nave at the western end, is of stone, octagonal, each side decorated with sunk quatrefoils, and supported on a panelled octagonal shaft, the panels having trefoiled heads. It has a deep lead-lined basin, the lead being dressed over the rim and finished with a cable-moulded edge. The stonework has been redressed, but it probably dates from the early 14th century." Noted in the Parish web site [www.stbotolphstjohn.org.uk/stbotolphshistory.htm]: "The font at the west end of the nave is lead lined and is of the fourteenth century. It was part of the church that was on this site before the present building. However, the stone was redresses in the nineteenth century."