Claines / Claynes / Cleines / Cleinesse / Cleynes / North Claines

We found no entry for Claines in the Domesday survey. Noake (1854) reports: "A new stone font stands at the west end of the church; and there is a basin on a pedestal standing by the north-west pillar of the chancel". The entry for Claines in Miller (1890) notes that the parish church "was formerly a chapelry [...] The chancel is of the 14th century [...] The font is modern." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The present church appears to have been entirely rebuilt in the early 15th century upon the site of an older building, some fragments of which, dating from the late 12th century", but it reports a small font placed at the southwest corner of the nave "in the first half of the 19th century". English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO8514558861] (1969) reports the font here as 19th-century. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report "C15 tiles and a C13-C14 font bowl (or stoup)" in the north porch. [NB: the VCH (ibid.) mentions the tiles but not the medieval font/stoup]; this object is illustrated in the Friends of Claines Church [www.clainesfriends.org.uk/flowers.html] [accessed 19 May 2010] -- this same source illustrates the modern font, a polygonal basin with decorated panels, raised on a pedestal base.