Coddington nr. Ledbury / Cotingtune

There is an entry for this Coddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO7142/coddington/] [accessed 7 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Royal Commission inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: p. 50) notes: "Font: modern but incorporating square stem with four attached shafts, moulded necking and base, early 13th-century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO7183642680] notes: "Font: bowl and plinth C19; stem consisting of block with attached shafts probably C13." This baptismal font is a somewhat of a conundrum, and does not seem to match exactly the description of the RCHM inventory. The basin is quasi-cylindrical but has a column at each corner; these colums have square capitals but the drums and the bases are octagonal; the whole is set on a quadrangular stone; the base consists of a broad central pillar plus four outer shafts slightly thinner than the central one; the are square but their corners have been cut at the centre, making most of the column octagonal with the exception of the capital and tha base; a flat wooden lid reinforced with a large iron motif has the shape of the upper plan of the basin. It must be noted that the font is made of many blocks, though it is not clear whether these blocks were orginally so or they have resulted from the break up of the font at some point. It is also possibly even likely, that this font has been greatly altered from its original shape.