Hagley / Hageleia / Haggelegh

There is an entry for Hagley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9180/hagley/] [accessed 17 September 2014]; a priest is repported in the entry but there is no mention of a church in it. Noakes (1852) notes: "At the west end of the nave is a handsome font octagonal with lancet arches and trefoils and recesses on the faces." Miller (1890) report the church here "entirely rebuilt", the font not being among the retained remains of the old church. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "From the fact that a priest is mentioned in the Domesday Survey at Hagley [...] it is probable that there was a church here in 1086. The first record of a presentation to the church occurs in 1286 [...] The church was almost completely rebuilt and considerably enlarged in 1860"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note a font by G. E. Street, octagonal and panelled. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO9207580769] (1967) reports an "Octagonal stone font with arcaded stem and cusped frieze around basin." [NB: this font must have been installed just prior to Noakes' visit, in the mid-19th century renovation of this church -- We have no information on the font of the medieval church]