Wrockwardine / Recordin / Recordine / Wrocworthin / Wrockwardyn / Wrokwardine

There is an entry for Wrockwardine [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ6212/wrockwardine/] [accessed 10 July 2015]; it mentions a priest and a church in it [cf. infra]. Anderson (1864) notes: "Wrockwardine Church was a Saxon foundation", and is mentioned in Domesday. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 11, 1985) notes: "Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century [...] and there was a priest in 1086" [cf. supra]; it mentions a number of fonts in this church: "A font, perhaps contemporary with the oldest parts of the church, was turned out in 1808. A pillar font or piscina, also 12th-century, was perhaps removed then too. Another font, probably late 12th-century and previously in a Wellington garden, was given to the church in 1934. […] The church also has two 19th-century fonts, and a portable one (given c. 1931) formerly the property of Bishop King of Lincoln." The Church of England 'A Church Near You' website [www.achurchnearyou.com/wrockwardine/] [accessed 30 April 2010] notes: "There are three fonts in the church (and another said to be connected with the church but now in the ruined St. Chad’s church in Shrewsbury)." Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Medieval, but probably made as a stoup. Brought here in 1934."