Berrick Salome / Berewiche / Berwick Salome

There is an entry for Berrick [Salome] [variant spelling] in the Domesday surcey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6293/berrick-salome/] [accessed 27 June 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007] notes: "the font is Norman and has an interlaced pattern round the basin". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, carved with intersected beaded circles." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 18, 2016) notes: "Berrick chapel existed by the late 11th or early 12th century, having probably been founded fairly recently by a lord of the four-hide estate recorded in Domesday Book [...] The chapel's dedication to St Helen is not recorded before the 19th century, [...] and was presumably copied from that of Benson. In 1554 the dedication was to St Peter [...] The chapel probably had baptismal rights from its foundation, and from 1609 (when Berrick's registers begin) baptisms, marriages, and burials were systematically recorded. [...] Berrick's small medieval chapel, substantially altered in the 17th century and again in 1890, is notable for its timber-framed west tower of c.1429, a feature unique within Oxfordshire, and uncommon nationally [...] The earliest dateable feature is the plain round-headed south doorway, probably late 11th- or early 12th-century [...] The 11th- or 12th-century font, with its interlaced beaded circles, is of high status and may have been imported from elsewhere (possibly Chalgrove), although it was certainly in the church by 1822." This font is claimed by local sources to be of Saxon date and, like the font at Canterbury St. Martin's, which it somewhat resembles, may perhaps date from the late 11th century. It consists of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with the same motif of intersecting circles as Canterbury's font, although here the circles are beaded and larger than on the former; the shape of the basin is also the opposite of Canterbury's: where the latter taers towards the top, Berrick Salome's tapers towards the bottom in a bucket-shape; round to square lower base onb a quadrangular plinth; lead lining on the inner basin well. The cover is flat, said to be of the 15th or 16th century.