Slapton nr. Leighton Buzzard / Slapetone

There is an entry for this Slapton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9320/slapton/] [accessed 23 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1850) and Cox & Harvey (1907) mention a baptismal font of the Early English period in this church. Described in Sheahan (1862): "The font is circular and plain, raised on a plain round pillar and base." The entry in Kelly's Directory of 1883 states: "the font is 600 years old". Noted in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925): "The church of Slapton, assessed at £12 in 1291, (fn. 37) was in existence before that time, as a rector was presented to it in 1223. [...] The present church dates from the late 13th or early 14th century […] The font, probably of the 14th century, has a circular stone bowl moulded on the lower edge and a circular stem." The benefice web site [www.ipschurches.co.uk/about.aspx] [accessed 16 March 2009] reports a font probably of the 13th century in this church. A painting of the font at Slapton in the J.L. Carr Collection at the Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service can be seen at [http://www.vads.ac.uk] [NB: the font in this painting is closer to the description of the Font at Slapton, Bucks., than to the one at Slapton, Nhants. The source, though based in Nhants., does not mention the county or the name of the church].