Weston Turville / Westone

There is an entry for Weston [Turville] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP8511/weston-turville/] [accessed 23 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Batty (1848) notes this as a font of the same type as Aylesbury St. Mary's. Noted in Parker (1850) as a "curious, cup-shaped" Norman font, with reference to an engraving in Lipscomb (vol. ii, p. 501). Sheahan (1862) too refers to Lipscomb entry and notes the similarity of this font with the ones at Aylesbury and Kimble. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Norman font. Described in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font similar to the ones at Aylesbury, Bledlow, Gt. Kimble, etc.; the base shaped like an inverted cushion capital. Described in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908): "That there was a church here in the 12th century is to be assumed, and the present font and part of an octagonal shaft built into the south wall of the chancel are of that date [...] The font stands in the third bay of the south arcade, and is a good example of the local late 12th-century type, with a large cup-shaped bowl, fluted below, and having a band of foliate ornament above, with a base like an inverted scalloped capital. In this instance there is only a single scallop on each face, filled in with foliate ornament. Dated in Betjeman (1958) and Stockner (1997) to the 12th century. Noted in Pevsner (1960) as Norman. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP8592610286] (1967) reports: "Font: Norman, of the Aylesbury group, chalice shaped with carved base and fluted bowl, leaf scroll carving round top." The upper side of the basin is decorated with a fine acanthus wine which is gathered into elegant scrolls by ties of beaded ribbon; the sides of the underbowl are covered in the fluted pattern typical of the Aylesbury group fonts; the three mouldings that make up the centre ring (a fat braided moulding sandwiched between two thinner rope mouldings] are very similar to those on the font at Little Missenden; the vertical sides of the scalloped base are decorated with large palmette-like acanthus leaves. The font is raised on a quadrangular plinth with chamfered angles. There is a flat round wooden cover on the basin.