Crudwell / Creduelle / Crodwell

There is an entry for Crudwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST9592/crudwell/] [accessed 22 May 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Gentleman's magazine (issue of March 1806: 210) reports on a 'Topographical Tour in Wiltshire… 1805': "The font is hexagon" [NB: was the old font really hexagonal and later re-cut to octagonal?]. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 14, 1991) notes: "Crudwell church, apparently standing in the 10th or 11th century, [...] belonged to Malmesbury abbey in 1151 when Hankerton church was dependent on it. [...] The proportions of the narrow, thinwalled nave suggest that the church may have been built in the 11th century. The tower was probably built after the nave but before the two-bayed north nave aisle which was built c. 1200." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. Baptismal font consisting of a plain octagonal basin with a chamfered upper rim, raised on a plain slaying octagonal stem, octagonal lower base and octagonal plinth. The cover consists of a flat octagonal paltform on which is a metal (brass?) finial ornament. The Wiltshire Community History page [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getimage.php?id=3441] mentions and illustrates "the modern font", but, quite possibly, the font is not modern, as the new-stone insert repair to the upper rim attests, a damage consistent with the presence of metal fastenings from the old cover found in medieval fonts. The font, though, does appear to have been drastically re-tooled recently.