Hardwicke / Herdeuuic

There is an entry for Hardwicke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9127/hardwicke/] [accessed 13 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "Winebaud de Ballon in 1092 gave a church called Hardwicke, with its tithes and 6 yardlands, to Bermondsey Priory (Surr.) [...] The arcade of 3 bays that until the mid 19th century divided the nave and the south aisle was said to be Norman, [...] but it is more likely to have been of the early 13th century. [...] The 13th-century font has a pedestal of 8 engaged shafts and a circular arcaded bowl"; this latter reference in the VCH is footnoted: "Trans. B.G.A.S. xxxviii. 197." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C13. Arcaded round bowl, its carving apparently unfinished, on a pedestal of eight engaged shafts." Baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin raised on a cluster of eight columns with moulded bases, an octagonal lower base and a round plinth. The basin sides are decorated with an arcade of large pointed arches inside each of which there is a motif; these motifs are totally uncharacteristic and may be an indication of a later re-carving or re-tooling of the basin sides. Wooden cover, round and flat; probably modern.