Faringdon nr. Lechdale / Farringdon / Little Faringdon / Faringdon Parva

Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font is plain, and of Norman date". [NB: Kelly (ibid.) informs that this parish used to belong to Berkshire but was annexed to Oxfordshire during the reign of William IV (1830-1837)]. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Norman, tub-shaped, the base formed by a cluster of rough shafts." The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 17, 2012) notes: "Until the 1860s Little Faringdon remained a chapelry of Langford. A chapel existed by the 12th century, the date of the earliest surviving fabric [...] The chapel probably had baptismal rights from its foundation, since the tub-shaped font is of 12th-century date [...] The double-chamfered pointed chancel arch is probably also 12th-century, and so too is the tub-shaped font". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "Located towards the SW corner of the nave, near S door, a bowl-shaped font of oolitic limestone. The bottom edge of the bowl is worked to four round-headed blind panels with chamfered edges. The chamfers presumably continued downwards on the original base, but the present base, a cluster of shafts, is modern. There are two repairs to the top edge to N and W. No lead lining."