Aisholt / Asholt / Terraolta

There is an entry for Aishlot [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1935/aisholt/] [accessed 4 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade and Wade (1929) report an old font, as well as "a liitle plain stoup" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this church in Historic England [List entry Number: 1178112] reports a "Cl5 octagonal font" in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 1992) notes: "There was a chaplain at Aisholt in 1267 [...] The church of All Saints was dedicated to St. Michael in 1530 [...] With the possible exception of the chamfered chancel arch the whole church appears to be of the 15th century [...] Some restoration was carried out in 1895. Fragments of medieval glass survive in the aisle windows and there are a 15th-century door and font." The present font consists of an octagobal basin with vertical sides and a round underbowl, raised on a cylindrical pedestal base, a round lower base and an octagonal plinth, all plain. Wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and small cross finial; modern.