Tong nr. Shifnal / Tonge / Tuange [Domesday] (Shrops.)

There is an entry for this Tong [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ7907/tong/] [accessed 16 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Anderson (1864) notes: "Tong Church was founded, endowed, and bestowed on Shrewsbury Abbey by Earl Roger de Montgomery, previously to 1094." The font is noted and illustrated in Griffiths (1894): "Old octagonal one of simple design, but good workmanship ; each face exposed has a trefoiled arch corresponding with the sedilia arches, and a shield. A hinge and catch still remain, probably appertaining to the old cover. The Font is made a little more accessible, but remains in the same position as usual, viz. : against the north-west pillar. There is a step for the priest, and one for the sponsor handing up the child." Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "C15. Octagonal. Shields on the bowl in sunk trefoil-headed panels." The underbowl is chamfered, with a thin graded moulding at the top, otherwise plain, as er the short octagonal stem and the splaying lower base; kneeling stones at opposite ends. The font is located by the westernmost pillar of the arcade that separates the main nave from the north aisle.