Hornblotton / Horblawetone / Hornblawerton

There is an entry for Hornblotton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST5934/hornblotton/] [accessed 9 April 2019]; it mentions no church in it but shows a "Spirtes the priest" as one of the several lords of the place in 1066. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports a very old font in this church. Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "old Norman font". The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin, plain but for a roll moulding at the upperm, raised on a cylindrical base with a roll moulding at the top, on an octagonal lower base or plinth, the latter probably a later addition. The font appears to have been re-tooled or drastically cleaned, and there is a large insert stone repair covering almost one quarter of the upper basin side. The wooden cover is round and flat, modern. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).