South Petherton / Perretona / Sudperet / Sudperetone

There are two entries for [South] Petherton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4316/south-petherton/] [accessed 27 February 2018], neither of which mentions a church in it; one of them, however, was in the lordship of "Alfgeat the priest" in 1086. The font here is not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "The presence of Alviet the priest holding a substantial estate in South Petherton T.R.E. and in 1086, and the subsequent appearance of several chapels dependent upon South Petherton church, is strong evidence that the church originated as a Saxon minster. [...] Parts of the walling of the western end of the chancel are of the 12th century, but there is no other evidence in situ of the form of the church at that time. This is largely the result of a major rebuilding in the later 13th and earlier 14th centuries" [there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry]. The entry for this church in the British Listed Buildings site [Listing NGR: ST4322816862] does not mention a font; it gives the church itself "Saxon origins". The present font, consisting of an octagonal basin raised on a slender octagonal pedestal base is modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church]