Atcham / Atingeham / Attingham / Ettingham

Anderson (1864) writes: "Atcham church is not alluded to in the Domesday notice of the manor, yet it certainly was existent when William the Conqueror's commissioners made their report, for, on April 5, 1075, ten years before Domesday was compiled, Ordericus Vitalis, the celebrated monkish historian, was baptized in it. 'I was born', says he, "on the 14th of the calends of March (Feb. 16), and was regenerated in the holy font of baptism by the ministry of Ordericus, the priest, at Attingham, in the church of St Eata, the Confessor, which stands on the bank of the river Severn.' In another place, this celebrated Anglo Norman monk, says, 'I was baptized on the Saturday of Easter at Attingham, a village in England'". Noted in Timmins (1899): "The font is curious, being fashioned from a Roman capital". Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as "a font made after an early pattern [...] which resembles the Norman font at West Thorney in Sussex"; this same source (ibid.) reports an inscription on the font containing the date of 1675 and a set of initials believed to correspond to the then churchwardens. In Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Plain, octagonal, dated 1675". [NB: is it possible that the font bearing the date '1675', is the old 11th-century one re-carved?]