Church Hanborough / Handborough / Hanborough / Haneberge

There is an entry for Hanborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4212/hanborough/] [accessed 28 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest not church in it. Baptismal font here noted in Tymms (1834). Moule (1837) notes a "curious font". Described and illustrated in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities of the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font from the middle of the 15th century; the illustration in the Guide... shows three of the sides of the basin: on the left side, a shield with the Instruments of the Passion (cross, crown of thorns, spear, scourge, sponge, etc.); in the centre, a quatrefoil window in a circle with a square flower in its centre, the spandrels of the outer square frame filled with single flowers; the right side has four trefoil motifs forming a St. Andrew's cross between them; "two of the sides are plain, one has been so originally, the other has been repaired" (ibid.). The inner well of the basin is round. The chamfer of the underbowl has a rounded moulding, as does the otherwise plain octagonal pedestal of the base; the lower base is short and plain, slightly splayed out. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is adorned with emblems of the Crucifixion". Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font, of Perpendicular date, is octagonal with panelled sides and has a pedestal of the same shape". Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C15. Octagonal, carved with quatrefoils and emblems of the Passion." The font-cover is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 12, 1990) notes: "Hanborough church was in existence by c. 1130 when Henry I granted it to Reading abbey [...] alterations were made in 1892 when the west door was opened, the font moved to a position under the tower"; the VCH entry does not give any other information on the font.