Londesborough / Lodenesburg

There is an entry for Londesborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8645/londesborough/] [accessed 31 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. A font here is described in Moule (1837): "the font is a curious and early specimen, of an octagonal form, with its bowl resting on staout pillars, elevated on a basement." Noted in Glynne's 23 January 1863 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is Early English, bowl octagonal, on six clustered short shafts, with moulded cap[ital]s and bases, and set on an octagonal plinth." The National Gazetteer of 1868 mentions a stone font in this church. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as perhaps the best font of the Early English period in this riding. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SE8686345384] (1967) notes: "Church. Early C12 nave, early C14 west tower (raised in late C15), north aisle, and chancel chapel; porch of 1678. Early C13 scalloped font on 6 dwarf colonettes with annuli." The six broad columns are heavily moulded and rest on a round lower base; below is a second lower base, octagonal. the whole is raised on a two-step round plinth with kneeling projection. The wooden cover, octagonal, flat and plain, is modern.