Hawridge nr. Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards / Aucrug / Harridge / Hauregge / Hauerigge / Hawryg / Hoquerug

No entry for Hawridge found in the Domesday survey. The Lysons (1806-1833) report a round baptismal font decorated with a border of roses in this church. Rickman (1850) notes it as circular and Norman. The Records of Buckinghamshire (1858: 268) reports the cleaning and re-fitting of the old Norman font in the replacement church consecrated on 13 November 1856. [NB: this same source notes: "The old Church, which was a plain uninteresting structure of the 13th century, having become very dilapidated, was taken down", which would suggest the font itself was not Norman but Early English]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, a noteworthy example. Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "Font: with shallow round basin ornamented with circular flowers and foliage, round, moulded stem, of clunch, crude workmanship." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The font, which dates from the 13th century, is circular, the bowl being carved with flowers and leaves." Pevsner (1960) notes: "Font. C13, circular, with flowers, etc." The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a round moulding at the upper im, and a band of inscribed rosettes alternating with abstract motifs that act as separators between the former; the bottom of the basin appears flat, and the apparent underbowl is actually a moulding of the upper end of the circular stem; conical lower base separated from the stem by a thin moulding; circular plinth with priest's stone.