Stapleford nr. Salisbury

There is an entry for this Stapleford in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU0737/stapleford/] [accessed 22 June 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A note on the restoration of this church appeared in The Ecclesiologist (no. CXLV, Aug 1861: 285) and mentions the location of the font: "The font is to stand against the westermost pillar on the south side", but it is not clear from the context whether that was the original location or not. The font is classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman. Up the lower half flat leaves or simply a motif of flat fluting." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "Stapleford church, which belonged to Salisbury cathedral in the earlier 12th century, [...] was served by a rector in 1220 [...] The oldest parts of the church, the north and west walls of the nave, the south arcade, and the west wall of the aisle, are late 12th-century, but the nave is narrow and its shape may be that of the nave of an earlier church. [...] Registers of burials survive from 1633, of baptisms and marriages from 1637"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The font consists of a round basin of almost barrel shape bearing a broad band of piping or flat ribs all around the underbowl and ending in a roll moulding; raised of a round moulded base and a quadrangular plinth, both modern. The wooden cover is round and flat; appears modern as well.