Chesterton / Cestedone / Cestreton / Cestretone / Chesterton Green

There are five entries for this Chesterton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3558/chesterton/] [accessed 5 January 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "Richard the Forester, the Domesday tenant of the manor, founded the church and endowed it with land worth 2 marks; and his son-in-law William Croc gave it to the priory of Kenilworth [...] The earliest feature is the south doorway of the nave, c. 1310–20, but it is possible that the thick north wall incorporates some of the original 12th-century nave, although there are no details of that period. [...] The font has a 13th-century tapering round bowl with a moulded top edge, on a moulded base which has been raised on another stone and has had its lower edge chamfered. The two ancient staple-rings are still used with an iron cross-bar to lock down the modern flat cover if required." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP3571158240] (1967) reports a "C13 tapering cylindrical font with moulded base and short stem" in this church.