Wootton Courtenay No. 1 / Otone / Wootton Courtney

There is an entry for Wootton Courtenay [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS9343/wootton-courtenay/] [accessed 18 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869) as a very ancient font. Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "an old stone font". The English Heritage, National Monuments Record (Ref. IoE Number: 265403) [www.imagesofengland.org.uk] [accessed 11 February 2009] notes: "Perpendicular octagonal font." The baptismal font now in this church is of Perpendicular design, but appears to have been either drastically re-tooled and re-carved, or to be a 19th-centyr replacement]. Described in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS9382943434] notes: "Parish church. C13 tower, east wall and window, mid C15 nave reroofed, north aisle added, circa 1525-40 nave refenestrated, east window north aisle added, circa 1853 and 1866 church reseated, north aisle refenestrated, chancel largely rebuilt, east window restored, south porch rebuilt, upper stage of tower added, gallery removed, 1900 vestry and organ chamber added, 1921 screen inserted and some mid Cl9 work removed, late C20 church restored. [...] Perpendicular octagonal font." [NB: the church dates actually from the 13th century, but we have no information on the original font of that church]