Eggington

No individual entry found for Eggington in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church [...] has been entirely restored, but as far as the walls are concerned dates from the early part of the 14th century [...] The font, which is at the west end of the nave, is formed of a circular bowl with four shafts round it, which have moulded capitals and a base of 13th-century type; it is built in stone with horizontal joints, the middle section is original, dating from the 13th century, but the top and base are modern, made to match." A font here is noted in Pevsner (1968): "Cauldron-like, or rather quatrefoiled with corner shafts, oddly undecided in shape. E.E." [i.e., Early English]. The basin is not really quatrefoiled but it rather has lobes or 'bulges' on the outside, which the reconstruction has tried to match. The row of nail-head (?) motif around the basin appears to be part of the reconstruction.