Newton Bromswold / Neuuentone / Newenton / Neweton / Newnton / Niwetone / Nywetona

There are two entries for Newtom [Bromswold] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP9965/newton-bromswold/] [accessed 20 August 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1849) writes: "On entering, the font, standing to the south against the westernmost nave-pier is, as it should be, the first object that presents itself to the eye. It is a plain octagon, but traces of a pattern for carving are visible on its sides. The cover is rude and heacy, but appears to be original." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The church appears to be a 14th-century rebuilding of a 13th-century fabric, little or nothing of which remains architecturally […] The church was restored in 1879 […] The 14th-century font has a plain octagonal bowl moulded on the underside, stem with incised tracery on six of its eight sides, and moulded plinth: there is a later pyramidal oak cover with battlemented edge and crocketed angles." Pevsner & Cherry (1973) note the font cover as "simple, Jacobean", but not the font itself.