Watton-at-Stone / Watone / Wattun / Wodtone / Wodtune

There are four entries for this Watton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3018/watton/] [accessed 18 October 2016], one of which, in the lordship of Anketil of Rots, mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue for SeptemberJuly 1842, p. 298) lists in its 'Literary and Scientific Intelligence' section," 'A Companion to the Baptismal Font', by the Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, Herts. 18mo. 2s". The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The advowson is first mentioned in 1304, when it was in the hands of Mabel de Tuwe […] The original church was entirely obliterated by the 15th-century rebuilding […] The nave arcades are of the 13th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The present font is Victorian, octagonal all over, of a Perpendicular-style design. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on its earlier font].