Meole Brace / Brace Meole / Mela / Melam / Melesbracy / Meole / Mill / Mole

There are two entries for Meole [Brace] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ4810/meole-brace/] [accessed 30 July 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for the modern Holy Trinity Church at Meole Brace [Listing NGR: SJ4862010555] reports an "Octagonal font with alternate panels of marble inlay and raised foliate decoration" in it. The entry for this church in Trinity Churches [www.trinitychurches.org/about-us/history/] [accessed 30 July 2019] notes: "The current church building, Holy Trinity, is the fourth we know of on the site [...] The present Holy Trinity Church is a fine Grade II listed Victorian building [...] The second church was a plain stone building with a half timbered tower built in the thirteenth century. [...] the church was demolished in 1799. [...] The third church was ‘an ugly red-brick structure’ and just one bell was deemed sufficient for the puny tower. [...] The third church was basically “cheap and nasty” and survived less than seventy years. On April 30th1867 the foundation stone of the latest church was laid on the site of the old vicarage." There is an earlier font of stone in the churchyard, now disused; it consists of an octagonal basin with the panels shaped like blank shields, each with a thin moulding along the underbowl towards the back; on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a square lower base; the font appears late-medieval, although it could probably be of much later date; it is used as a planter in the churchyard.