Linslade / Hlincgeladae / Lichelade / Lincelada / Lincelade / Lynchelad / Lynchelade / Lyneslade / Old Linslade

There is an entry for Linslade [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9125/linslade/] [accessed 20 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862), who includes Linslade in his history of Buckinghamshire, reports a circular font in the old church, St. Mary's. He also notes the new church, St. Barnabas', built in 1849, and its new font of Bath stone. The Victoria County Hystory (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) describes the early font at St. Mary's: "The 13th-century font has a circular bowl with carved ornament of foliage and animals round the top, and an octagonal stem with a moulded base." Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Late C12, circular, with a band of scrolls and beasts." [NB: The same information is included in Pevsner's 1968 book on Bedfordshire, in which Linslade St Mary's also appears]. The font consists of a round basin with cylindrical sides and a rounded lower basin and underbowl; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and moulded two-step lower base, the stem and base a later addition. The basin is badly cracked at several spots and has been repaired. The wooden cover is flat and round. [NB: Linslade, officially in Bedfordshire, is located right at the county border between this county and Buckinghamshire].