Yeovilton / Geveltone

There is an entry for Yeovilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5423/yeovilton/] [accessed 7 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "Architectural evidence places the foundation of the church in Norman times but documentary evidence dates only from the end of the 13th century […] in the chancel […] a Perpendicular font removed from the west end of the nave." The Fleet Air Arm Museum web site [http://www.fleetairarm.com/en-GB/st_bartholomew_church.aspx] [accessed 1 October 2009] notes: "The octagonal font […] by the North entrance is 15th Century". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The font consists of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved panels inscrbing shields and lozenges alternatively on the sides, and a tall underbowl chamfer with trefoiled panels; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with a pronounced moulding at the top and deeply-carved pointed niches on each side; the small octagonal lower base is plain. The wooden cover is round and flat; appears modern. The basin well is lead-lined. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]