Salperton / Cold Salperton / Salpretune

There is an entry for Salperton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0719/salperton/] [accessed 7 February 2019]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "There was a priest at Salperton in 1086 [...] and the church there was granted to Studley priory (Warws.) in the mid 12th century", and reports "a 19th-century font" inside the church which, it adds, was dedicated to St. Peter in the Middle Ages. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) do not mention a font, but state that All Saints' is "a Norman church of nave and chancel […] severely restored in 1885-6 by John C. P. Higgs (of Higgs & Rudkin"; the same source informs alsa that the tower "collapsed and was rebuilt c. 1700". There is record of a 1884 'begging letter' from the Vicar, Harry Kenrick Adkin, asking for funds for the urgently-needed renovation of the old church [http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/Salp.html] [accessed 4 December 2009]. A further communication from Rev. Adkin dated 25 April 1887 (ibid.) includes his grateful thanks for the successful funding campaign, "The balance which appears, will suffice to pay for Pulpit and Font, already ordered". The replacement font was on its way, but there is no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font. The new font is a Victorian version of the 'table-top' Norman design, the basin sides adorned with a single quatrefoil, the central shaft and four outer colonnettes of the base clustered and raised on a square lower base/plinth. The wooden cover, probably Victorian as well, consists of a flat square base with four open-work vertical ribs.