Huddington / Hodintone / Hodyngton / Hudigtun / Hudintuna / Hudintune] / Huditon / Huntintune / Hudyngton

There is an entry for Huddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9457/huddington/] [accessed 25 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) notes a Norman doorway on the south of this church, but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "Huddington was originally a chapelry of the church of St. Helen Worcester. [...] It is said afterwards to have become annexed to the church of Crowle, [...] but is called a church in 1291, 1340, and 1428. [...] Before 1291 the church appears to have been appropriated to the hospital of St. Wulfstan, Worcester [...] The earliest church of which traces remain was of late 12th-century date, parts of the north and south nave walls, with the two doorways, being of that period"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO9428957252] (1969) reports an "octagonal font with moulded base", without mention of date or period. A font here is noted in Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Plain octagonal font, late C14." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin of plain vertical sides, with a graded moulding underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a moulded lower base; the sides of the basin may have been re-tolled at some point; there appears to be damage at the upper rim consistent with the forceful removal of old cover staples. The present wooden cover consists of a flat platform on which stand four verticall scrolls around a centre pivot with a finial; it is in the Jacobean style but it is probably of Victorian times.