Alderminster / Aldermaiston / Aldermanneston / Aldermarston / Aldermeston / Aldermoneston / Aldermonston / Aldremoneston / Sture / Stvre

There is an entry for Alderminster [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2348/alderminster/] [accessed 2 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) does not mention a font here but reports that a "stone in the porch has the date of 1140". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The church of Alderminster was appropriated to the abbey of Pershore by Henry de Soilli, Bishop of Worcester (1193–5), and this was confirmed by Pope Celestine III (1191–8) and Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury (1193–1207). [...] The earliest building on the site appears to have been erected early in the 12th century, and portions of its walls, with fragments of two small windows, survive in the nave of the present church. [...] The font and furniture are all modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP2300048630] (1967), however, reports two fonts in this church: "c1884 font by Preedy has relief scenes and figures of evangelists, c1661 font in porch" [NB: we have no further information on this font, nor have we been able to corroborate whether the 17th-century font is still in the porch].