Ashcott / Aissecote

There are two entries for Ashcott [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4337/ashcott/] [accessed 24 April 2018], but there is neither cleric nor church mentioned in them. Drawing of a font 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 July 1888 accompanied by the following description: "All circular, except octagonal foot. Circular bowl, lead lined, same rake in & out, flat bottom, 8 3/4 deep, 2 3/4 margin, chamfered edge inside same as out: position, S. side of Nave Walk, on left entering by S. porch through S. aisle. Modern cover." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "Ashcott was originally a chaperly of Shapwick [...] and was mentioned as such in a list of the churches and chapels of Glastonbury abbey in 1168 [...] The church of All Saints was so dedicated by c. 1244 [...] In 1888 controversial proposals by Edward Dampier of Colchester (Essex), resulted in the removal of the west gallery [...] A low stone screen was installed between chancel and nave, and the font was placed under the tower." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST4371637149] reports a "Norman tub font" in it church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "At the W end of the nave, towards the N, a greyish, fine-grained stone tub font with a bowl with convex sides and chamfered at top and bottom and inside the upper rim. The bowl is unlined and stands on a cylindrical stem of two blocks, and that on an octagonal base and plinth. The bowl is in very good condition, but with big repairs clearly visible at NW & SE, including evidence of a lock at the SE of the rim. There are some vertical & horizontal tooling marks."