Daylesford / Daeglesford / Daeilesford / Dailsford / Dallifford / Dallisford / Dalysford / Dayleford / Deiglesford / Deilesford / Edesford / Eilesford

There are two entries for Daylesford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2425/daylesford/] [accessed 24 September 2014], one of which reports a priest but makes no mention of a church in it, though there probably was one there. Miller (1890) writes: "The church was founded by Ethelweld King of Mercia between 716 and 757 [...] rebuilt 1816 [...] again rebuilt 1860", and mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "At the time of the Domesday Survey there was a church in Daylesford [...] The present building, designed by J. L. Pearson in 13th-century style, was built in 1860 by Harman Grisewood to replace another erected in 1816 on the site of a very much older church. [...] Some remains of 12th-century work exist in the north wall of the chancel, consisting of two capitals and one bay of a Norman arcade of two square orders." A modern font here is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Decagonal stone font with foliage bands on short marble pillars". This font is Victorian, like the rest of the new church, but this same source reports that the "original Norman or Saxon church was taken down in 1816" [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here]