Polesworth

We found no entry for Polesworth in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "The church of Polesworth was granted to the abbess and convent of Polesworth, with the manor, by Robert Marmion and his wife Millicent [Robert d. 1218] [...] The nave is of the first half of the 12th century and was probably always the part of the priory buildings that served the parishioners. [...] A 12th-century doorway which still survives just east of the present nave (and south of the modern chancel) would therefore have been the entrance from the north end of the western alley. [...] After the Suppression the whole of the abbey church, except for the doorway mentioned, disappeared. [...] The parish church that was retained suffered many vicissitudes afterwards [...] The font has a 15th-century octagonal bowl of which each side is treated with a trefoiled gabled panel with crockets and finial; the under edge is moulded. The stem and base are modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK2633202433] (1968) reports a "C14 octagonal font has trefoiled blind arches and simple shafts" in this church.