Upton-on-Severn / Hopton / Opton / Upton-upon-Severn / Uptun / Uptune

There is an entry for this Upton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8540/upton-on-severn/] [accessed 22 October 2014]; it reports two priests in it but mentions no church, though there likely was one there. Miller (1890) notes: "The present church was built on a new site 1877-1879 from designs of Mr. Bloomfield". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "Two priests are mentioned in the Domesday Survey of Ripple and Upton, [...] and probably one was attached to the church of Upton. [...] The old church [...] stands at the north end of the town close to the right bank of the Severn, but is now disused. Only the tower is ancient, the rest of the structure having been rebuilt in the style of the day in 1756–7 [...] The building has been abandoned since 1879 and is now (1912) in a state of great dilapidation, the windows broken, the plaster dropping from the ceiling, and all the fittings in a state of decay. The font, which consists of a circular fluted plaster bowl on a tall pedestal, lies in three pieces", but a footnote with reference to Lawson [E. M. Lawson, Records and Traditions of Upton-on-Severn, 181] it adds that even that font was "second hand". The VCH (ibid.) notes on the new church: "The new church [...] stands at the south end of the town, near the railway station [...] erected in 1878–9 [...] The font and all the fittings are modern." The entry for the new church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO8515140277] (1968) informs: "From previous church, C18 font in N chapel". The Parish website [http://uptonuk.net/townmatters/stpandpchurch/stpeters.html] [accessed 9 June 2010] informs that the font in the new church was donated by its first rector, "Robert Lawson who was incumbent for 31 years from 1864 to 1895". Brooks & Pevsner (2010) report that the architect of the new church of St. Peter and St. Paul was Arthur W. Blomfield: "Blomfield's fittings include the carved octofoil font". The font in the new church is located at the west end of the nave, on the north side [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of the old church]. [NB: the Church of the Good Shepherd is modern and has a 19th-century font (Brooks & Pevsner, (ibid.)]