Edvin Loach / Edeuent / Edevent / Edvinloche / Edvyn Loche / Edwin Loch / Yeddefen / Yedefenlonges / Yedeffene Loges / Yedefont Loges / Yedeven / Yedfenloges / Zeddenfenlogges

There is an entry for Edvin [Loach] [variant spelling] in the Domesday book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6658/edvin-loach/] [accessed 24 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) reports the church here "with Norman and probably pre-Norman work", but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The church of Edvin Loach seems originally to have been a chapel of Clifton upon Teme, for in 1286 a pension of 3s. was paid from the church of Edvin Loach to that of Clifton upon Teme. [...] The old church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, now a roofless ivy-covered ruin, stands in the churchyard to the east of the present church [...] The nave is of Saxon workmanship, probably of the early 11th century, but the tower, which also appears to be of pre-Conquest date, is a later addition. [...] In the nave is a fragment of the bowl of a 12thcentury font enriched with a cheveron ornament. This was recovered from the old church at Tedstone Wafer, which is now disused. [...] The new church of ST. MARY, immediately to the west of the old church, was built in the early part of the 19th century"." Font here described in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: p. 76): "Font: part of round bowl with cheveron ornament, 12th-century." The entry for the new church in English Heritage (1973) reports; "Many of the furnishings are of 1860. The plain ocvtagonal font is on a stem with clustered shafts." The CRSBI (2014) reports: "The broken remains of a partly Romanesque font were described by RCHME (1932), but the font had been removed by 1986."