Noke / Acam / Acham / Noke-on-Otmoor

There are two entries for Noke in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5413/noke/] [accessed 13 December 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) reports: "The Font is Early English, of a cylindrical form, larger in circunference at the vertex than at the base, and it stands on a round base, the upper edge of which is chamfered. Its position is between the north and south doors, a little to the west; it is lined with lead, and has a drain, but a pewter basin is used". The font has a pyramidal wooden cover about as tall as the font itself; Latin cross finial. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "There was a church at Noke at least by 1191, when a priest was first recorded. [...] The church of ST. GILES is a small stone building which has been much restored but dates originally from the first half of the 13th century [...] The cylindrical font is 13th-century and rests on a circular base; [...] the lead basin is marked 'Noke 1773'"; a footnote in the VCH entry (ibid.) refers to a "Buckler drawing in MS. Top. Oxon. a 67, f. 395.", in the Bodleian Library. Sherwood and Pevsner (1974) do not mention mention the font itself but note: "Font cover. C16". The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2016) reports "a plain tapered limestone font of indeterminate age" in it, and adds: "As there was a church on this site at least by 1191, it is possible that the surviving font is Romanesque. However, the font is not mentioned by Sherwood & Pevsner, and is considered to be of 13thc. origin by VCH."