Faringdon nr. Swindon / Chepyngfaryngdon / Farendon / Farendon / Farringdon / Ferendone / Ferendun / Great Faringdon / Great Faryngdon

There is an entry for [Great] Faringdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU2895/great-faringdon/] [accessed 8 June 2015]; it mentons a church and one hide of church lands in it. Gough (1792) writes: "The font at Farrringdon, Berks, is hexagon [cf. infra], with two rows of arches on a hexagon base." Poole (1842) mentions this font but places Farringdon in nearby Berkshire. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is [...] plain P[erpendicular]". Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The Pye Chapel [...] contains the discarded font, a good octagon of Perpendicular date." In Geldart (1899) after Pugin. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The church of Faringdon was in the possession of the Bishops of Salisbury before 1086 [...] The clearstory and possibly the west end of the nave may be part of a 12th-century church. About 1190 to 1200 the nave arcades were perhaps inserted in the earlier walls [...] The 15th-century font is octagonal, with window tracery on each face of the bowl." Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted font of the Perpendicular period; the basin sides are ornamented with multiple sets of trefoild arches or windows; the rest of the font is plain; round inner basin well; two-step octagonal plinth. A heraldic font is identified in Cook (1954) in Faringdon.