Newbald / Niwebolt / North Newbald / North Newbould

There is an entry for Newbald [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/north-and-south-newbald/] [accessed 21 July 2014], and it reports a priest and a church in it. The font here is noted in Moule (1837): "The font is circular and is enriched with a very florid moulding; the basin rests on dwarf pillars with leaved." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is early English, suriously formed and ornamented." Noted in Glynne's 14 January 1863 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a large circular, cup-shaped bowl on a stem. It is transitional, from Norman to Early English, and sculptured with a rude sort of foliage. The stem is composed of clustered octagonal shafts." Described and illustrated in Hall (1892): "The font is of the early English period, with clustered columns and stiff ornamental foliage round the bowl". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of the Early English baptismal font type [NB: C&H use the form "North Newbould"]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a beautiful Norman font of the 12th century [NB: Bond mentions its date also as late-12th or early-13th century elsewhere in the same source]. The basin is roughly hemispherical, with vertical sides, almost cylindrical, with a squarish upper rim and rounded underbowl; there is a broad band of foliage motif, stylised and "moving" in a horizontal direction; the rounded part of the underbowl has clusters of vertical leaves that create a bud-like shape and become the capitals of the engaged columns of the base; these columns have roll-mouldings at the top and bottom. The columns rest on a short round lower base, only as wide as the circle of columns, while the whole is raised on a wider plinth, also circular.