Baltonsborough / Baltunesberge

There is an entry for Baltonsborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5434/baltonsborough/] [accessed 8 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Phelps (1836) writes: "The general character of the [church] building is about the fourteenth century [...] The font is ancient, and resembles the one at Butleigh, but without the lamb and dove." Noted in Pevsner (1958) as a font "of the usual Perp[endicular] type". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 9, 2006) notes: "There was a church in Baltonsborough village by 1168. [...] It was a dependent chapelry of Butleigh [...] The church of St. Dunstan, so dedicated by 1536, (fn. 352) is more impressive than its chapelry status would suggest. It was entirely built in the 15th century [...] The interior retains many original features, including piscinae in chancel and nave, sedilia, aumbry, font, stone pulpit, plain pews, stand for an almsbox, and a traceried south door [...] Eighteenth-century refurbishment involved the painting of a gallery in 1715, together with the pulpit, font, pillars, and arches". The font consists of an octagonal basin with large quatrefoils with inscribed blank shields on some of the sides the sides, on others a floral motif in an octafoil, and graded moulding around the underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with a rectangular panels on the sides; moulded lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat.