Iver / Eure / Eureham / Evere / Evre / Evreham

No entry found for Iver in the Domesday survey. Freeman (1850) notes an Early English font in this Romanesque church (in which Freeman reports earlier Anglo-Saxon remains). Described in Parker (1850): "The font has a square bowl of black marble, on a cylindrical pedestal, and four small octagonal shafts." Ditto in Sheahan (1862). Noted and illustrated in the RCAHM (1912) with date in the 12th century. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) noes: "Iver Church is mentioned in the reign of Henry II [i.e., 1154-1189] [...] The font is of Purbeck marble and dates from the 12th century; it has a square tapering bowl with zigzag and fluted enrichments, and a central circular stem with four detached shafts, the capitals and bases of which are modern." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a good specimen from a group of fonts "characteristic of the Norman period in architecture", "consisting of a rectangular bowl upon a large central shaft, with four slender supporting shafts at the angles"; there is zig-zag motif ornamentation on the sides of the basin. Noted in Pevsner (1960) as a made of Purbeck marble and probably Norman. Notes and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "Under the W tower on the N side is a Purbeck marble table font with a square tapered bowl carried on five Purbeck shafts with scallop capitals, attic bases and a plain square plinth. Of this, the bowl, the shafts (but not their bases or capitals) and the plinth are original 12thc work. The four faces of the bowl are decorated with an incised zig-zag design, and the upper surface has concentric reeding in the spandrels. The round basin is lead lined. [...] The trumpet scallops in the nave arcade date this feature around 1170, and the imported Purbeck font could date from the same time." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl ornamented with a geometric pattern; the capitals and vases of the subsidiary shafts are modern" [source given: RCHM (S), 1912].