Blaston No. 2 / 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: "Blaston was divided by the early 13th century into two chapelries, and both chapels were mentioned c. 1220. St. Giles's chapel, which at a later date served the greater part of the small valley in which the village lies, was then said to belong to Medbourne church. [...] It was already, in fact, independent of Medbourne: in 1204 it was said to be within the limits of the parish of Medbourne, but to be a free chapel having no obligations to the parish church except for the payment of a pension of 5s. [...] A visitation made in 1619 recorded that the chancel wall was damaged, [...] and in 1639 the chancel needed painting and paving. [...] The chapel was rebuilt in 1714 [...] It was demolished and again rebuilt in 1878 by the lord of the manor, the Revd. G. C. Fenwicke. The architect was G. E. Street. [...] All the fittings date from the last rebuilding, with the exception of the bell which was cast by Thomas Eayre of Kettering in 1720." But Chris Jones of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/blaston-church-st-giles/] [accessed 27 July 2015], reports that the font by the door is from the 1714 re-building. There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry.