Tanworth-in-Arden / Tanewrtha / Tanworth

We found no entry for Tanworth-in-Arden in the Domeday survey. Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858) reports: "The Church was originally a Chapel attached to Brailes, and was conveyed as such by Roger de Newburgh Earl of Warwick to the Canons of Kenilworth : it is stiled Capella de Tanewrtha in the confirmation of that grant [...] by Simon Bishop of Worcester, temp. Hen. I. [i.e., 1100-1135] The Church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, is a large parochial edifice [...] has been, originally, a fine structure of the Decorated style throughout. It is now, however, mutilated and defaced to an extent which can hardly be credited, and these sad disfigurements appear to have been committed at no distant period. [...] The ancient stone font has been removed, and a substitute found in a shallow stone vase on a baluster stem, placed in the eastern (!) part of the nave." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP1134870511] (1967) reports a "C18 font with large baluster." The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The chapel at Tanworth [...] had become an independent parish church by 1202 [...] A period of about half a century, from the late 13th century to c. 1330–40, covers the whole of the architectural details of the building, apart from the modern work. [...] The font is modern, but there is a disused late-18th-century font nearby."