Naunton nr. Cheltenham / Niwetone

There are two entries for this Naunton in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1123/naunton/] [accessed 13 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Tymms (1834) reports a baptismal font "curiously sculptured" in this church. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The church was probably built in the 12th century and before 1878 the south door retained a rounded arch with toothed mouldings of that date. [...] A corbel head reset over the east window of the vestry is thought to be of the 12th century, and a Saxon cross found under the nave during the rebuilding in 1878 [...] was reset in the north-west wall of the nave. [...] the octagonal bowl of the font is 15th-century." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal bowl decorated with quatrefoils in circles with centres of four-leafed flowers. Each face of the dhamber has a shield presumably once painted, and each face of the octagonal pillar a simple trefoil-headed panel. The moulded and chamfered plinth rests on a low octangular base. C19 step." The font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides, decorated with a protruding moulding at the upper rim, each side of the basin with a floral motif in a quatrefoil; the underbowl chamfer has a shield on each side and there is a moulding at the top of the stem; the sides of the stem have trefoiled arches or windows, and the lower end is moulded; all octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, but has raised metal ribs and cross finial; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].