Evington / Avintone

There are two entries for this Evington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6202/evington/] [accessed 3 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Leicester, vol. 4, 1948) notes: "In the 12th century the rectory and advowson of Evington were granted by Ernald de Bosco and John Humet to Leicester Abbey, [...] and their grant was confirmed between 1168 and 1190 by Robert, Earl of Leicester. [...] The church was appropriated between 1209 and 1219. [...] The earliest surviving part of the church dates from the 13th century [...] The font stands in the south aisle. It dates from the 13th century and has a heavy round bowl, supported upon a thick round column surrounded by four detached shafts with moulded capitals and bases, the capitals distorted to fit under the bowl." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK627590276] (1950) notes: "Stone C12 bowl font with central circular stem and four outer columns raised on two circular steps." The font is noted and illustrated in the Parish web site [www.stdenys.org.uk/history.htm] [accessed 25 September 2007]: "The font is early 13th Century and has stood in the church for over seven and a half centuries. It is cylindrical or tub shaped and its design is of late 11th or early 12th Century Norman origin. The cover is modern but there are signs on the rim of the font of the original staples which locked the medieval cover in position to prevent the theft of holy water."