Grimley / Grimanleag / Grimanlege / Grimanleh / Grimele / Grimell

There is an entry for Grimley [variant spelling] in the Domesday book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8360/grimley/] [accessed 24 September 2014], but ir mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) reports a plain Norman doorway and an octagonal font on a circular base in this church. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "In 1238 there was a free chapel at Grimley. [...] The advowson belonged to the Priors of Worcester [...] until the monastery was dissolved. It was appropriated to the priory in 1268 under the title of 'church,' and to it was attached the chapelry of Hallow. [...] The only remains of the 12th-century church are the south doorway and the lower part of the south wall of the nave. [...] The font is apparently an old one recut. It is octagonal in plan, with a moulding of 15th-century character on the lower ridge of the bowl; the base is new." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO8363060682] (1959) reports an "Octagonal font, probably recut Romanesque original on new base." In Brooks & Pevsner (2007) with "C14-C15" date. [NB: we have no information on the font of the early church here].