Drinkstone / Drencestuna / Drincestona

There are three entries for Drinkstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL9561/drinkstone/] [accessed 30 May 2024], one of which mentions 1 church. 0.1 church lands in it. There is no mention of a font in Parker's 1855 entry for this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Knott (2007?) writes: "The font is set against a pillar in the south arcade in the traditional manner, and is one of those arcaded octagonal fonts you find mainly in the east of the county, usually made from Purbeck marble. Or, at least, it appears to be, but I couldn't help wondering if it was actually an older, square font that had been cut down and decorated by someone locally. It just doesn't have the same finish as other fonts in this style." The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with pairs of blind pointed arches on the sides, raised on a broad central shaft and eight thinner colonnettes, all of them round; on a lower base, and a plinth that is attached to a pillar of the south arcade. The wooden font is octagonal and flat, and appears modern.