Pillerton-Hersey / Nether Pillerton / Pilardetone

There is an entry for Pillerton [Hersey] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2948/pillerton-hersey/] [accessed 12 January 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. A font here is mentioned in passing in Dugdale (1730). The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes on St. Mary's building: "The chancel is of mid-13th-century date and one of the best local examples of its period. The nave was probably of the same date, and the lower part of the tower was perhaps added a little later in the same century. The tower was altered and heightened in the 15th century. The south aisle, shorter than the nave, was added probably c. 1400, but the south arcade of the nave, as well as the north arcade and aisle, dates from 1875, when much alteration and restoration was done […] The font and pulpit are modern." This modern font is mentioned in the church guide pamphlet available locally: "the stone font of uncertain date with a wooden cover of long thin shafts made in 1927" [noted in www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ison/the1.htm [accessed 22 June 2008]. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church].