Tingrith / Tingrei / Tingriff / Tyngree / Tyngreve

There is an entry for Tingrith [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0032/tingrith/] [accessed 23 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Lysons (1806-1833) and in Paley (1844) [after Lysons] as a baptismal font with a decagonal basin raised on a cluster of columns. Kelly's Directory for Bedfordshire (1898) mentions that "the font, a good specimen of Early English, is a decagon, with clustered shafts". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a "good font" of the Early English period mounted on a base of clustered columns. Listed in Bond (1908) simply as a font with a ten-sided basin. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The Abbess of Elstow claimed the advowson in the early part of the 13th century, [...] but did not succeed in substantiating her title, and in 1320 the lord of Tingrith Manor exercised the patronage of the church [...] The whole of the church was rebuilt in the latter half of the 15th century [...] The font is modern, with a ten-sided bowl resting on a central and four attached shafts." A March 2007 report by Karin Semmelmann, of Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd., on behalf of the Tingrith Parochial Church Council [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-751-1/dissemination/pdf/archaeol2-30727_1.pdf] [accessed 26 October 2011] informs the font had been "re-sited" in the 1990s. [NB: all sources consulted, except the VCH, date the font to the 13th century, and only the VCH claims its modernity; we are not yet able to confirm the date of the font].