Walton, nr. Street / Waltone

There is an entry for this Walton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4636/walton/] [accessed 9 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 9, 2006) notes: "There was a church at Walton by 1168 when it was confirmed in the possession of Glastonbury abbey [...] Peter the priest recorded in 1189 may have served the cure [...] and two chaplains were appointed to Walton c. 1200 [...] Before 1836–8 [...] the building had had a central tower and a nave, both slightly wider than the chancel and suggesting a 12thcentury origin [...] The present church, the gift of the Revd. John Hickley, the rector, was designed in the Decorated style by the Revd. J. F. Turner, and was built in 1865–6 [...] The octagonal Perpendicular font, which had been painted in 1832, [...] was replaced in 1866 by a square one in Caen stone with quatrefoil decoration and marble shafts given by the Revd. Lord John Thynne, rector 1823–50. [...] There was also a small font with shell in the 1930s." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST4613536314] reports: "Elaborate font with detached marble shafts the gift of the Thynne family. "