Newton Longville / Neuton Longeville / Neutone / Neuuentone Lungeville / Neweton Lungevilers / Newinton Longwille / Newinton Longueville / Newnton Longueville / Newton Longueville / Newynton Longeviler / Niwentona

There is an entry for Newton [Longville] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8431/newton-longville/] [accessed 24 February 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1850) and in Sheahan (1862) report a plain specimen of the Early English style font here. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927): "The font has a tapering circular bowl, which is probably of the 12th century but has been much reworked, and has modern carving upon it; the octagonal base also appears to be old. The oak cover is a good piece of early 17th-century work. It is eight-sided and of pyramidal form, the panels being carved with lions and unicorns, while the counterpoise is carved as a dove with outspread wings." The Parish Church Guide (1964) [www.newton-longville.co.uk] [accessed 16 April 2011] notes: "The font has a 12th-century circular tapering bowl with comparatively modern carved ornament. The shafts of the stem are modern but the octagonal base is old. The cover is early 17th-century and is carved alternately with lions and unicorns amid foliage. Note the carved dove counterweight of similar date." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): " The font is at the W end of the S aisle, and has a decorated tub-shaped bowl on a separate projecting cable lower rim and a shafted support, both modern. The octagonal plinth is medieval, but only the bowl is 12thc. The bowl is encircled by a row of six inaccurately drawn lozenges in low relief. Masking the intersections where the lozenges touch are rings with low convex bosses in the centre, all except for the two on the W side of the bowl, of which the NW has the intersection visible, interlaced with an encircling ring, and the SW has a plain, uncarved disc at the intersection. The western lozenge is the least accurate of all; not rhomboid at all but pentagonal since the upper vertex is cut off by the rim of the bowl. This field, and the upper and lower triangular fields to the S of it, are left uncarved, but the other fields are decorated with foliage forms in relief. This decoration consists of pairs of fan-shaped fluted leaves curving apart, all except for the lower triangle at the NW of the bowl, which has a two-step half-disc at the bottom and two fluted leaves at each side. The lozenge-shaped fields are described starting at the W and moving from L to R (anticlockwise) around the bowl. 1. Uncarved. 2. Plain central disc with fluted palmettes above and below and simple double leaves emerging from a single stem to L and R. 3. Central convex boss surrounded by a torus, with fountain-like palmettes above and below. 4. Central convex boss surrounded by a double torus, with triangular fluted leaves filling the spaces above and below. 5. Two-step flat central disc with fountain-like palmettes above and below. 6. Two-step flat central disc surrounded by a daisy-like ring of fluted petals and triangular fluted leaves filling the spaces above and below. The bowl is basically 12thc but repaired and completely retooled. The rim shows no obvious damage, except for very neatly inserted repairs at the W and NE. The bowl is lined with lead."