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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 10, 1975) notes: "Until 1874 the tithings of East Lavington and Easterton were served by the parish church at East Lavington. Traces of Norman work are to be seen in the fabric of that church and it is believed that there may have been an even earlier one on the site. [...] The evidence for a 12th-century church is in a number of carved stones of that date in the later medieval walling of the aisles and others built into the porch in the 19th century." There is no mention of font in the VCH entry. The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-312035-church-of-st-mary-market-lavington] [accessed 24 January 2012] reports: "Font, octagonal, C14-C15, on short column. "