Windrush / Wenric

There are five entries for Windrush [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1913/windrush/] [accessed 17 December 2018] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The church of St. Peter [...] is of 12th-century origin. [...] The 15th-century font, which is similar to those at Oddington and Great Barrington, [...] has an ornamented octagonal bowl." The VCH reference to the font is footnoted: "'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xlii. 70." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. A very good example of the C15 type, octagonal, with quatrefoils, and trefoil-headed panels on the stem." The octagonal baptismal font now in Windrush St. Peter's is decorated with floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoil panels on the basin sides, foliage motifs on the underbowl chamfer, and trefoiled windows on the sides of the octagonal pedestal base. The wooden octagonal cover is flat and probably Victorian, with an acorn finial [NB: beautiful Norman south portal decorated with the beaked heads typical of Cotswold portals -- see Iffley St. Mary's (Oxon.), for one of the best examples of the group; we do not, however, have any information on the original font of the Norman church].