Newent No. 1 / Noent

There is an entry for Newent [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO7225/newent/] [accessed 6 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 12, 2010) notes: "Newent parish church, which by the early 15th century bore the dedication to St Mary the Virgin, [...] is likely to have been an Anglo-Saxon foundation. In 1907 a cross shaft (kept in the porch in 2007) was found in a prominent position on the south side of the churchyard next to the road. Carved with figurative scenes which depict Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Eden, the angel restraining Abraham from the sacrifice of Isaac, and the victory of David over Goliath, it probably dates from the late 8th century or the early 9th, being related both in style and iconography to sculpture from high-status Mercian sites of that period. [...] Of the medieval church, represented by its chancel, south lady chapel, and south-west tower and spire, nothing earlier than the late 13th century survives [...] The earliest parts, dating apparently from a rebuilding in the late 13th century or early 14th, seem to be the chancel and the arcade [...] The stone font, a classically decorated bowl on a stem, is of the late 17th century". Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Font. Late C17, with acanthus carved on the bowl, and draped swigs on the stem." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO7235125957] notes: "Parish church; C13, C14, C15, early C17, 1675 nave by E.Taylor, F. Jones and J.Hill, restored C19, vestry C20. [...] Circular C17 stone font, acanthus leaves on bowl, swags on stem, moulded base."