Blaston No. 1 / Bladestone / Blastone / Blauestone

There are three entries for Blaston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8095/blaston/] [accessed 27 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicester, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "The chapel of St. Michael is first mentioned c. 1220 as belonging to that half of Hallaton church owned by the Martivals. [...] The chapelry comprised the eastern part of the village and several scattered fields. [...] St. Michael's was served three days a week from Hallaton in 1220 and continued to be closely attached to the church there. [...] St. Michael's remained a dependent chapel until in 1930 it was joined with St. Giles's to form a separate parish. [...] The present building was erected in 1867–8 by the Revd. G. C. Fenwicke. [...] St. Michael's seems to have been kept in very good condition in the 17th and 18th centuries. A drawing of 1794 shows it to have been a very small postReformation building with square-headed windows and gables with parapets. [...] The chapel was apparently allowed to fall into worse and worse repair until it was rebuilt. In 1858 it was described as 'delapidated, dirty and dangerous'. [...] St. Michael's was in 1958 a small rectangular building in much the same style as St. Giles's. No services had been held there since the First World War, the windows were broken, and the roof was in poor repair. It has one bell which bears no date. [...] The plate consists of a silver cup, two dishes, and a paten, all dated 1735, the gift of the Revd. George Fenwicke of Hallaton, and a pewter flagon of 1698. (fn. 166) The registers of baptisms, burials, and marriages begin in 1676 and are virtually complete." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry.