Stringston / Strenegestone / Strengestune / Stringstone

There are two entries for Stringston [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1742/stringston/] [accessed 9 April 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "A rector of Stringston was recorded in the time of Richard I[i.e., 1189-1199] [...] The small church, in 1851 and since c. 1980 named after St. Mary the Virgin but of unknown ancient dedication,[...] Remains of a late medieval building survive in the chancel arch, part of the chancel wall plate, the outer arch of the porch, a carved head in the vestry, and the font." Described in Pevsner (1958) as a font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST1764642402] mentions no font in it. The sides of the octagonal basin are decorated with rosettes inscribed in pointed quatrefoils; the underbowl chamfer has a large rose on aech side; the octagonal stem has mouldings at top and bottom and, on the sides, deeply-carved trefoiled windows or niches; splaying lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is flat and round, totally plain; modern.