Letcombe Bassett / Ledecoumbe / Ledecumbe / Letcombe Basset / Up Ledecombe Basset / Upledecombebasset / Upletecomb

There is an entry for Letcombe [Bassett] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3785/letcombe-bassett/] [accessed 26 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Murray (1882) reports an Early English font in this church. Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in June 1888 accompanied by the following description: "Very irregular circular bowl, stem part oct. part sq. Circular bowl inside, no lead, basin shape, 9" deep, 2 5/8 margin. Position, 1/2 way down nave on S side. Flat modern cover. N3. The wave moulding, Sc., between the two joints shown, is a modern 'restoration.'" [NB: the entry is headed 'Lebcombe Basset']. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period in the county of Berkshire [NB: today -2000- Letcombe Bassett, located 3-4 km SW of Wantage, at the western end of the county, is now part of Oxfordshire]. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The chancel is of 12th-century dale and probably also the walls of the nave [...] The font consists of a plain circular stone bowl and stem on an octagonal to square base, and may be of 13th-century date."