Alford / Aldefeford

There is an entry for this Alford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6032/alford/] [accessed 29 January 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Drawing of a font here in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in September 1887 accompanied by the following description: "Position, on left, (W.) side, entering by S. porch. Octagonal, irregular." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides and a slightly concave underbowl chamfer; the octagonal stem is plain but for a moulding at the top, where it meets the basin; the splaying lower base is also octagonal and plain. The wooden cover is flat, octagonal and plain; appears modern. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958) The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 10, 2010) notes: "Roger the priest was recorded at Alford in the mid 12th century [...] The church was dedicated to All Saints by 1545 [...] The churchyard cross is late 13th-century but the entire church appears to have been rebuilt in the later 15th century and was sympathetically restored, the chancel refitted and the nave roof replaced in 1877–8 by Thomas Graham Jackson" [NB: no font mentioned in the VCH entry].