Powick / Poincguuic / Poiwic / Poiwicha / Powyke / Poywyk

There are four entries for Powick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8351/powick/] [accessed 17 October 2014], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Miller (1890) gives the dedication of this church as "St. Peter and St. Laurence" and reports an octagonal font in it. A font here is noted in Noakes (1852): "In the north transept is a handsome octagonal stone font, each face or division of the cup having quatrefoil carvings, and trefoils in the corresponding divisions of the shaft." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a priest at Powick in 1086. [...] The oldest parts of the building are the walls of the transepts, which, though refaced in places and with later windows inserted, are substantially of 12thcentury date. [...] If the 12th-century church had a central tower it was entirely removed in later times, either in the 14th century or when the nave arcade was reconstructed. [...] The font is of 14th-century date and consists of an octagonal stone basin with panelled sides containing quatrefoils within circles and stands on a panelled and moulded stem and base." In Brooks & Pevsner (2007).