Longworth / Langeworth / Ordam / Weorthe / Wrda / Wrtha / Wurthe / Wyrthe

There is an entry for Longworth in the Domesday survey [Folio: 59r Great Domesday Book] [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3899/longworth/] [accessed 4 June 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The earliest parts of the existing building are the two east bays of the north arcade, which are of early 13th-century date. [...] The 13th-century font is circular, with a stem of similar form moulded at the top." The font consists of a plain cylindrical basin with a chamfered underbowl, raised on a cylindrical pedestal stem, plain but for a roll moulding at the top, and a plain cylindrical lower base with a chamfered top. The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth with a priest's stone. The upper rim of the basin appears to have been re-tooled recently. The basin well is not lined. Noted and illustrated in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] [accessed 26 July 2007]