Shottesbrooke / Schotebrock / Scotebroc / Shotbrok / Shotebroke / Shotesbroke / Shottesbroc / Sotebrok / Sotesbroc / Sottebroc

There is an entry for Shottesbrooke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU8477/shottesbrook/] [accessed 19 March 2015]; it mentions a church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted and illustrated in Keyser (1919): "The font [...] is very good decorated work, octagonal, with trefoiled canopies within ogee-headed arches with crocketing and richly carved finials on each face, and graduated buttresses capped by crocketed pinnacles on each angle. There is a similar font at Hurley, and modern copies of it at Waltham St. Lawrence, and Cumnor, Berks." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1924) notes: "A church at Shottesbrook is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. [...] Though an earlier church had existed here, the present building dates from about 1337 [...] The original 14th-century font remains. It is octagonal and has small crocketed and pinnacled buttresses at the angles, while the sides are panelled with trefoiled ogee-headed panels having crocketed labels surmounted by carved finials. Round the foot runs a moulded base which is continued round the angle buttresses." The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; appears Victorian.