Arrington / Erningtone / Erningtune

There are two entries for Arrington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3250/arrington/] [accessed 16 May 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Gough (1792) notes that this font and the one at Stanstead (Essex) "are shaped like the frustum of a pillar on a base." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. There is no mention of this font in the RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968) entry for the church and village. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL3251650303] (1967) notes: " Font, c.13. Limestone. Tapering bowl with roll moulded lower edge, round stem and plinths with chamfered upper edge." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1972) notes: "Between 1087 and 1093 Roger, earl of Shrewsbury, gave Arrington church, the priest's land, and part of the tithes to the abbey of St. Martin, Sées (Orne) [...] The early medieval church was completely rebuilt in the course of a continuous building operation in the later 13th century;" no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The font is described in Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch] as being of "an unusual design -- an extremely uneven round cylindrical bowl with a protruding ring around the waist. It looks like a fat little hat sitting on a tree stump"; the same source compares it to the font at St. Laurence's in Foxton [cf. Index entry]. The 'Recent Grants' report of the Grants Committee of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust [28 September 2004] records a baptismal font "of particular interest" in this church. [source: www.historicchurches.org.uk/recent_grants]