Rolleston on Dove / Rolleston-on-Dove / Rolveston / Rolvestune [Domesday] [disappeared?]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Source caption: "North door, Rolleston Church. A fine 12th century Norman doorway with distinctive zig-zag moulding." [NB: the main entrance to the church is via the north portal; the south portal was used for access by the lords of the manor, the Mosleys, and their servants]
Scene Description: Source caption: "North door, Rolleston Church. A fine 12th century Norman doorway with distinctive zig-zag moulding." [NB: the main entrance to the church is via the north portal; the south portal was used for access by the lords of the manor, the Mosleys, and their servants]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3862539] [accessed 20 August 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Rolleston. View from the south. The oldest parts of the church date from the 12th century and show Norman features. Unusually, the aisles do not run forward to the west end of the nave. Also unusual are the offset bell-chamber opening on the west and south faces of the tower, to accommodate the tower staircase. The spire was not added until 1892. Listed Grade I."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Rolleston. View from the south. The oldest parts of the church date from the 12th century and show Norman features. Unusually, the aisles do not run forward to the west end of the nave. Also unusual are the offset bell-chamber opening on the west and south faces of the tower, to accommodate the tower staircase. The spire was not added until 1892. Listed Grade I."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3862487] [accessed 20 August 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20008ROL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: oldest part of the church here dated "not later than 1140, and probably 1120s rather than '30s" in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1204/] [accessed 20 August 2015]
Church Address: Church Rd., Rolleston, Staffordshire DE13 9B
Site Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near, and a suburb of Burton-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Offlow [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Rollestone [on-Dove] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK2327/rolleston-on-dove/] [accessed 20 August 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK2356927718] (1964) reports an octagonal stone font in this church; no date provided. The present font may date to the 1890s restoration by Arthur Blomfield.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 590848 5856024
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.846292, -1.651036
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 50′ 46.65″ N, 1° 39′ 3.73″ W