Northfield / Nordfeld

There is an entry for Northfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0279/northfield/] [accessed 2 September 2014]; it reports a priest but there no mention of a church in it, though there probably was one here. Miller (1890) reports "remains of a Norman doorway on the north side" and a modern font in the church here. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The church of Northfield was granted to the priory of Dudley by Gervase Paynel when he founded the house about 1160 [...] The earliest part of the existing building is the north doorway, of about 1170, which with two carved heads, inserted in the south face of the tower, formed part of a 12th-century church. [...] The round-headed north door dates from about 1170 and has been reset in the modern aisle wall." The preent font is modern, an octagonal basin with floral motifs in quatrefoils on the sides, on an octagonal stem with niches on the sides, and a graded lower base; probably 19th-century.