Bassingham No. 1 / Basingeham

There is an entry for this Bassingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9059/bassingham/] [accessed 18 June 2018]; the entry mentions a priest and a church in it. Stocker (1997) notes this as one of five early "fonts discovered buried beneath church floors (at Bassingham, Cabourne, Covenham St Mary, Ewerby and Folkingham)" in Lincolnshire. "The stone was originally a large 10th-century tomb-chest, which was cut into sections (perhaps in the 12th or 13th century). One of these sections was hollowed out to form a tank which was probably used as a font [...]. The recuting for this purpose is deliberate and careful and it seems likely that the original decoration was considered to be important in its secundary function [...] It ceased to be a font, presumably, in the late-medieval period (the present font is late 14th- or 15th century), when it was reverently buried in the nave floor" (Stocker (1997). In Stocker's listing, this font appears also under the heading "List 4) Provisional list of fonts reusing Anglo-Saxon carved stones". This object is not mentioned in Pevsner (1989). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9080659732] mentions a "Octagonal C15 fort [i.e., font] with quatrefoils" in it. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) mention no font or stoup in them.