Letheringsett / Laringseta / Laringsete / Leringaseta / Letheringset / Letheringsete

There are two entries for Letheringsett [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0638/letheringsett/] [accessed 29 January 2014], but neither mentions church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Under the Earl [Walter Giffard Earl of Bucks] it was held about the time of the survey by Grimbald, who built a church here, and gave it to his third son, Edmund. This lord was founder of the family of De Leringset, alias De Bacon. [...] The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Andrew, and consists, of a nave and 2 isles, a round tower, or steeple, with 3 bells." Lewis' Directory of 1848 describes the font at St. Andrew's as Norman, but Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) describe it as a 13th-century octagonal font made of Purbeck marble "with the usual two shallow arches on each side and eight supporting columns" [NB: there is a broad central shaft in addition to the eight outer colonnettes]. Illustrated in Knott (2006). The font appears completely original, including the octagonal lower base; it has been raised on a later quadrangular plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat; appears modern.