Beaudesert No. 1

No entry found for Beaudesert found in the Domesday survey. A font and a stoup in this church are noted, and the stoup illustrated, in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847): "The nave has a low and flat plaster ceiling, the removal Nave of which would greatly improve the appearance of the Church. At the west end, near the door, is the font. This consists of a plain octagonal basin, supported by an octagonal shaft placed on a circular raised basement of three steps, one of which projects westward. Near the south door, within the Church, are the mutilated remains of an ancient Norman stoup; but few of the Norman era now remain this is placed within a kind of semi-hemispherical recess, and that portion of the basin which projected has been destroyed." The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The parish church [...] is a fine example of the middle of the 12th century [...] The 15th-century font is octagonal; the bowl is moulded on the underside and has a vertical strip of repair let into the middle of the north side. East of the south doorway are the remains of a stoup." English Heritage (Listing NGR: SP1529466042] (1967) reports a "plain C15 octagonal font with moulded underside" in this mid-12th century church.