Blockley / Bloccanleah / Blocclea / Blochelei / Blochlei / Blockel / Blocklei / Blockelet

There is an entry for Blockley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1634/blockley/] [accessed 23 September 2014]; it reports a priest but mentions no church, though there probably was one here. A font here is described in Soden (1875): "The font is of stone, of decorated character, octagonal in plan, with quarterfoils on each face, having a four-leaved flower in the centre. Within the moulding, beneath the basin, and above the pedestal is a row of similar ornaments. The base consists of one step only; and a modern carved oak cover serves as a canopy." Miller (1890) reports an octagonal font in the church of Norman times. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "There was a church at Blockley in 1086, served by a priest who held 1 hide of the manor. [...] The church dates from about 1180, and work of that period still remains in the four walls of the chancel, and in the east, south and west walls of the nave. There was probably a contemporary western tower, the two eastern buttresses of which appear inside the west wall of the nave. The church apparently stood unaltered until the 14th century [...] The font is octagonal in plan, the 14th-century bowl having quatrefoil panelled sides, each panel with a square flower. The stem and base are modern." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Octagonal, with the usual Perp[endicular] decoration."