Tunstall nr. Chesterfield / Tunestal / Tunestalle

INFORMATION

Font ID: 19209TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: [Parish Church?] [disappeared?]
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Tunstall no longer exists as a location, but appears to have been located off (S) the A619 [aka Chatsworth Rd.], SE of Heath, SE of Chesterfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Scarsdale
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (was there a church here at Domesday-time)
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Tunstall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK4665/tunstall/] [accessed 14 May 2014]; there is no mention of a church in either of them, but a priest is reported in the part held by Stenulf of Sutton [1066] and, later, Roger of Poitou [1086]. [NB: we have been unable to locate any reference to a parish church here -- was there a church or chapel in Tunstall attended by the priest noted in Domesday? Was it a manorial chapel/church?]. Whitaker (1823) arites: "The parish church of Tunstall was unquestionably a Saxon foundation, as it is mentioned in Domesday:; Whitaker further comments that the present [ca 1823] fabric