Dowlish Wake / East Dowlish / Doules

There is an entry for Dowlish [Wake] and [West] Dowlish [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/dowlish-wake-and-west-dowlish/] [accessed 26 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) write: "a rude font, probably early Norm[an]. It was brought here from West Dowlish as the only remains of a church which existed there prior to 1700". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "Probably from the origin of the church the advowson was held with the manor. The grant of the church to Wells cathedral by Ralph Wake (I) before 1189 [...] was evidently of no effect, and ownership of manor and advowson continued to descend together in 1973 [...] he church of ST. ANDREW, so dedicated by 1349 [...] It was much restored in 1861–2 [...] Norman font from the former church of West Dowlish (demolished by 1575)". Described in the Somerset Environment Record (1986) [http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=57228] [accessed 15 March 2008]: "In the Speke chapel is a C11 or C12 font, tub pattern with arcaded sides, from the church of West Dowlish, demolished by 1575". Described by Phil Draper (2007) [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/DowlishWake/StAndrew2.html] [accessed 15 March 2008]: "a much worn second font from West Dowlish church which was demolished c1700, Norman (although the church guide says Early Saxon) with remains of blank arcading around the bowl" [NB: unfortunately Draper's accompanying photograph of the church interior does not illustrate the old font; there is a font shown by the south entrance, but it is obviously a Victorian font]. A BBC news report of Sunday, 24 October 2004 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/3949327.stm] [accessed 15 March 2008] informs that the old font "was covered in graffiti" as a result of vamdalism in the church and churchyard.