Edwinstowe / Edenestou

There are two entries for Edwisnstowe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK6266/edwinstowe/] [accessed 25 January 2020]; one entry is for multiple places, including Edwinstowe; the other is a single entry for this place, and mentions a priest and a church in it. Kelly's Directory of 1881 reports a plain ancient stone font in the church here. Listed in Cox (1912) as an unusual baptismal font of the Decorated period decorated with a band of quatrefoils. Gill (1914) writes: "The font is contemporary with the south aisle [i.e., mid-14th century]. Its chief decorative feature is a somewhat unusual band of quatrefoils, one on each face of the octagonal bowl. Its patched and built-up appearance would lead one to suppose that it suffered considerable damage when the spire fell, in 1672." Listed in Guilford (1927) as Perpendicular. In Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as Decorated period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK6251966942] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15. Spire restored 1680 and C19. [...] Fittings include font, octagonal, C15, base of 3 steps, quatrefoil band, C19 crocketed conical cover." There is one other wooden font cover in use at this church, a plain round platform with a Latin cross finial; modern.