Mapledurham nr. Reading / Malpebreham / Mapeldreham

There are two entries for this Mapledurham in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6776/mapledurham/] [accessed 17 September 2024] neither of which mentions priest or church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font round, good N[orman], with a spiral cable moulding". Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font a heavy rude Norman cylinder with the cable moulding." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1911: "the font is Norman". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928): "a huge band of cable encircles the whole of a tub-like font", with nail-head motif on it. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Norman, cylindrical in shape, with diagonal bands of billet decoration." Bucket-shaped, quasi-cylindrical, stone baptismal font of the Norman period; the basin is decorated with a band of beaded-tape pattern around the upper basin side; the same pattern is used on the diagonal bands that appear all around the basin sides. The mounted is mounted on a shorter plain cylindrical base. The round flat wooden cover appears modern. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU6700476676] notes: "Church. C13 [...] Romanesque round font with cable moulding on C19 base with remains of C19 painted decoration." Listed and illustarted in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=7297] [accessed 17 September 2024]: "In the W end of the nave, there is a lead-lined tub font, slightly tapering towards the base. A short circular channel approx. 3 cm wide pierces the body of the tub diagonally on the south-facing side. A gently convex band 6 cm deep runs round the top with a fine roll moulding beneath. Towards the base, this pattern is repeated but reversed: the band is slightly concave and the roll moulding occurs above. Between these two bands, the body of the tub carries 16 diagonal stripes running from top right to bottom left, 3.5 cm wide, with worn billet decoration, edged on both sides with a narrow roll moulding. The whole retains 19th-century painted decoration in faded red, gold and grey-black. The tube stands on a 19th-century base, also painted, of two large, stepped cylindrical sections on an unpainted high step. The arrangement resembles the bottom of an arcade pillar."