Munslow / Astune / Munslow Aston

There is an entry for [Munslow] Aston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO5186/munslow-aston/] [accessed 29 June 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. A 9 January 1833 letter from D. Parker, of Shrewsbury, to the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of January 1833: 9) notes: "There is a gallery at the west end; under the gallery, near the great south door, is a handsome font; the basin, which, like all our ancient fonts, will admit of complete immersion, is octagonal, two feet seven inches in diameter, and rests on a pedestal of the same shape: the whole height is four feet two inches. Each compartment of the sides is carved into a rich pannel, containing a quatrefoil, in which is a double rose, or a shield alternately. The shaft or pedestal, is pierced through in each division, with a narrow trefoil headed arch." The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "an ancient font" in this church. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Octagonal Perp[endicular], with blank arches on the stem, and quatrefoils enclosing flowers on the bowl." [NB: Newman & Pevsner (ibid.) report a mid-19th century font "plain but handsome" in Broadstone Chapel; the chapel is "single-cell, probably medieval in origin"]. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "There was a priest, and so perhaps a church, at Aston in 1086. Within the next few years the sheriff may have shifted the hundred meeting place from Corfham to Munslow, a change perhaps stimulating the development of a new settlement at Munslow and the move of the church there. [...] There was a rector of Munslow by c. 1115. [...] The nave is 12th-century. [...] Fifteenth- and 16th-century work includes the middle window in the north aisle, the font, and painted glass, some of it given by John Lloyd, rector 1506–28 and depicted in one window. [NB: the description in The GM above is not accurate; the panels alternate between round quatrefoils and pointed quatrefoils; some of them have roses inside, some shields and some nothing at all; the stem is decorated with trefoiled window tracery].