Castlemorton / Castel Morton / Castle Morton / Moreton / Morton Golet / Mortun

We found no entry for Castlemorton in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "A chapel existed at Castlemorton before 1333 [...] and was annexed to the church of Longdon until 1880, when Castlemorton was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish, the living, a vicarage, being in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. [...] In 1333, when the church of Longdon was appropriated, provision was made for a priest to serve the annexed chapel of Castlemorton. [...] A graveyard was made at Castlemorton in 1387 on account of the distance from Longdon and the badness of the roads. [...] The chancel and nave probably represent an early 12th-century chapel, to which an aisle and chapel were apparently added about 1200. In 1387 a reconstruction probably took place and the tower was added or rebuilt, the church and churchyard being at this date rededicated. [...] The font now in use is of late date and consists of an octagonal stone bowl carved with acanthus foliage. It stands on an older moulded base. In the chapel is the mutilated bowl of a 15th-century font, and also a circular stone font of 18th-century date on a tall pedestal." In Pevsner (1968): "Fonts. One a half-broken Perp[endicular] piece, the other an C18 baluster with foliage (nave)", expanded in Brooks & Pevsner (2007) to: Three fonts. That in use has a Perp[endicular] stem and C17 bowl with acanthus leaves. The original bowl, half-broken, is now in the S[outh] transept, on a plain octagonal stem. The third, an C18 baluster font, has flat foliage on its base and bowl."