Waterperry / Pereiun

There is an entry for Waterperry [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6206/waterperry/] [accessed 5 December 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes that the church shows pre-Conquest elements under the chancel arch, and that "the font has a plain 15th-century octagonal bowl which has been placed on the remains of an earlier (possibly 12th-century) font". The CRSBI (2016) explains that there is a single font, a composite of a late-medieval basin and the remains of the earlier Romanesque font now used as the base: "Made of oolitic limestone. Re-used as the base of the late medieval font is what appears to be a cut-down Romanesque font. Tub-shaped, plain, on plain drum-shaped base." In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "An octagonal C15 bowl. The round base with a moulded top may be C13". The later basin is octagonal, with plain tapering sides; one of the sides has significant damage at the upper rim area, probably where the staple of an old cover was; the upper end of the old font -now serving as base to the late-mdieval one- was obviously round, but it appears to have been roughly cut at the top to match the octagonal shape of the later basin.