Stoulton / Stoltun / Stowton / Stulton

There is an entry for Stoulton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9049/stoulton/] [accessed 1 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a curious font" in this church. Noake (1848) notes: "The font is an interesting specimen of the early Norman: it is circular, large enough for total immersion, and its pedestal is in the shape of another basin, reversed; the top edge is ornamented with a roll and fillet, surmounted by a zigzag and pellets." Noted as a Norman font in Miller (1890). The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The history of the church is simple, as it has never been enlarged since it was built about the year 1120. [...] the font [...] dates from the erection of the church [i.e., ca. 1120]; it is cut from one block 2 3/4 ft. wide by 2 1/3 ft. high, and is round on plan, with sides tapering to the base. It is moulded at the base and near the top." English Heritage (1965) reports: "The C12 tub font has a band of wavy lines around the rim." In Pevsner (1968): "Font. Norman, round, with tapering sides. Wavy top band." The Open Churches Trust web site [www.openchurchestrust.org.uk/Churches/Stoulton.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007] notes: "The font is the original placed in the church at the time of building [cf. supra], cut from one piece of stone tapering towards the base with wave and pellet mouldings." In Brooks & Pevsner (2007) as Norman. The CRSBI orpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008), which describes and illustrates this font, suggests that the upper rim of the basin "may have been cut down".