Wasperton / Wasmertone

There is an entry for Wasperton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2658/wasperton/] [accessed 14 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County Council (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The church was definitely stated to be a chapel of Hampton Lucy in 1279, [...] and the patronage of the vicarage has continued to the present day in the hands of the rector of Hampton [...] entirely rebuilt [...] in the 14th-century style by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1843"; no font mentioned. A report on the re-building of this church in The Ecclesiologist (vol. 17, 1856, p. 131), notes: "This beautiful little church, dedicated to S. John the Baptist, is perfect, and deserves special notice. 'Nil desperandum' should have been engraved on its walls, as an encouragement to all who despair of restoring ugly churches. A few years ago, Wasperton church was a red brick building, of the most ordinary description, with fan light windows. The present Vicar sent for Scott; and through the liberality of the former, together with the talents of the latter, the present beautiful church has risen out of the red-brick building. [...] the new font is placed in the proper position [...] It is a perfect model of what every county parish church outght to be." The modern font, of neo-Perpendicular design, is located at the west end of the nave. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 13th-century (?) church here].