Droitwich No. 3 / Wich / Wiche

There are eleven entries for Droitwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8963/droitwich/] [accessed 16 September 2014], it being spread over seven counties, from Worcestershire through Oxfordshire; only one of the eleven entries, the holding for which Leofnoth the priest was lord, reports a priest in it but there is no mention of a church, though there probably was one there. Noakes (1852) writes: "In the north aisle or chapel [...] is a curious and probably ancient font: it stands on a square shaft, with angular feet, and is decorated with rude devices of lozenges, circles and other tracery; the basin is capacious enough to hold the infant when immersed." This must be the same font noted in Miller (1890) when he writes the church here "almost destroyed by fire 1292 [...] The font is circular with square base. It must have escaped at the great fire"; Miller (ibid.) gives "Thomas Newent ... 1287" as first recorded rector of this church.