Alvescot / Alvescott / Alvescote / Elfegescote

There is an entry for Alvescot [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2704/alvescot/] [accessed 11 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is E[arly] E[nglish], square, with shafts at the angles." In Murray (1882). Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "the font is Early English". Described in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol 15, 2006) as a “font of the 13th century". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Early C13, square, with corner columns and nailhead on the base." Noted and illustrated in the West Oxfordshire website: "The font stands just inside the door, since it is the symbolic links with entry to the church. It is made of carved stone and dates from the beginning of the thirteenth century. The font is square with corner columns and has a nailhead design around the base. The church owns a silver and mother of pearl baptismal dipper, which is in current use." [source: www.wospweb.com/site/Alvescot-Village/planchurch.doc] [accessed 17 June 2007]. The basin shows large areas of repair with inserts of new stone; the base is modern and made of blocks forming a quadrangular shape. The wooden cover is plain, square and flat.