Wixford / Witelavesfors

There is an entry for Wixford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0954/wixford/] [accessed 27 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "Domesday makes no mention of a priest at Wixford, though the dedication of the church to the Saxon saint St. Milburg seems to be evidence of its antiquity; [...] but it may have been in 1086, as certainly it was later, a chapel of Salford. Henry I gave it with the mother church to Kenilworth Priory, whose rights therein were contested by the monks of Evesham as lords of the manor. An agreement was finally made, and confirmed by Roger, Bishop of Worcester (1163–79) [...] Modern restoration has rather obscured its history, but probably the nave is the original 12thcentury building and the chancel is a 13th-century lengthening of the plan; it is possible, from the positions of the 12th-century doorways, that the nave was lengthened also at the west end in the 13th century. [...] The church was restored in 1881 [...] The font is modern, but in the south chapel is a plain disused font, perhaps of the 15th century, with an eight-sided bowl, a cylindrical stem, and square base with a chamfered plinth." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP0900054940] (1967) reports: "Nave has C19 font".