Old Swinford / Oldswinford / Svineforde / Suineforde / Swineforde

There is an entry for [Old] Swinford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9083/old-swinford/] [accessed 22 September 2014]; it reports a priest in it but mentions no church. Noake (1848) writes: "The church of Oldswinford is a modern erection, except the tower, which is of the date of the fourteenth century, the rest of the building [...] erected in 1843 [...] In removing the old building [...] An ancient lich gate having an ornamented arch together with an old font were both removed at the same time". Miller (1890) notes that the Church of St. Mary here was "the mother church of Old Swinford and Stourbridge", and had a 14th-century tower; "The spire was rebuilt 1810 and retopped 1843, 1885. The rest of the church was rebuilt 1842, when the old church was pulled down." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "A priest is mentioned in Domesday [...] and a church was in existence at Old Swinford at least as early as 1284–5 [...] The western tower, the only ancient part of the church, is a fine example of late 14th-century work". [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the medieval font removed at that time]