Lullington nr. Fome / Lolistone

There is an entry for this Lullington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST7851/lullington/] [accessed 17 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is noted in Paley (1844), in Bloxam (1859) and in the National Gazetteer (1868) as a baptismal font bearing an inscription. Noted by J.L. Petit in volume 5 of the 'Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society' (1864?) [http://www.archive.org/details/ilamanastasicdra05ilamuoft] [accessed 7 July 2009]. Reported in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "singular tub-shaped Norm[an] font, with an inscription, 'Hoc fontis sacro pereunt delicta lavacro'". Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "Fine old Early Norman font with this inscription encircling it: 'Hoc fontis sacra pereunt delicta lavacro'". Described in Romilly Allen (1888) who mentions two earlier bibliographic sources and gives the text of the inscription on the font [cf. Inscription area below]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a singularly fine specimen of enriched Norman"; they record the text of the inscription [cf. Inscription area] which runs around the upper basin side. In Wade & Wade (1929): "Tub-shaped Norm. font, bearing inscription, Hoc fontis sacro pereunt delicta lavacro, and another legend undecipherable." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a late Norman baptismal font consisting of a bucket-shaped basin on a short cylindrical base, probably monolithic. Under the rim a band of heads, mostly animals and twisted vegetable motifs; below it, a Latin inscription in large capitals [cf. Inscription area]; farher down, a band of flower heads and, finally, an arcade of intersecting round arches resting on ear-of-wheat [or, more likely, chevron] patterned columns. The base/plinth is plain. Another inscription, on the rim, is almost totally erased and illegible. Described and ilustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a very richly adorned tub-shaped Norman font; he too gives the text the inscription, a slightly different transcription from both Cox & Harvey's and Bond's. Described in Pevsner (1958) as "the most highly decorated Norman font in Somerset"; Pevsner gives the same text of the inscription as Romilly Allen.