Adlestrop / Addlestrop / Adelsthorp / Edestrop / Tedestrop / Titlestrop

There is an entry for Adlestrop [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2426/adlestrop/] [accessed 13 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is illustrated in a 27 December 1879 drawing by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire [NB: Dryden has label "Adelsthorp Co Glouc", but the font is consistent with our records of Adlestrop, Gloucestershire]. Described and illustrated in Fryer (1920): "Octagonal bowl with corner pendants and segments of circles between. Each face adorned with quatrefoils and four-centred patterns containing conventional foliage. Diam. Int.-- 1 ft. 9 in. D-- int. 1 ft.; D ext.-- 1 ft. 1 in.. Each face -- 1 ft. x 1 ft. 1 in. R-- 4 in. to 5 1/2 in. Chamfer (11 in. x 10 in. x 10 in.) on octagonal moulding is ornamented with geometrical patterns, foliage, a head of corn, a mask (5 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in.) having damaged nose, and one heater-shaped shield now plain. Octagonal pedestal. Each face (10 1/2 in. x 6 in.) adorned with trefoil-headed niches in rectangular panels (9 in. x 4 1/2 in.) Circular base C. (top) -- 5 ft. 1 in. bottom -- 5 ft. 1 in. Rectangular bevelled plinth -- 2 ft. 3 in. x 7 in. each face. [...] The plain heater-shaped shield on chamfer was probably emblazoned with the armorial bearings of the donor." The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The chapel was mentioned in a 12th-century survey [...] Adlestrop was for ecclesiastical purposes a chapelry of Broadwell until 1937 [...] the church was rebuilt and restored several times [...] The font, at the west end of the nave, is 15thcentury." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP2429926895] notes: "Anglican parish church. C13 tower and chancel arch, C14 tower. Rebuilding c1750 and again 1765. South transept probably C18. Chancel altered 1824. North transept dated 1860 on trefoil datestone in gable end. General restoration early 1860s. [...] Octagonal C15 font at west end of nave." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal bowl with corner pendants and segments of circles between. On each face quatrefoils and four-centred patterns containing conventional foliage. Octagonal pedestal with trefoil-headed niches in rectangular panels. The chamfer is ornamented with heads of corn, a mask and one heater-shaped shield." Noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Parish Church Montages [www.allthecptswolds.com] [accessed 17 February 2008].