Stibbington / Stabintone / Stebintone / Stebintune / Stepington / Stybyngton

There are three entries for Stibbing [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL0898/stibbington/] [accessed 12 February 2020], one of which reports a church in it. Paley (1844) writes: "the bowl of this massive Font is of Transition Norman character"; the octagonal basin has a round arch on each of its sides; the base consists of a central pillar and eight angle shafts, all of each modern and "very irregular in their workmanship" according to Paley (ibid.), who reports it as having neither a drain nor a lining. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907: 203) in much the same terms as Paley; C&H suggest that parts of the base "appear to have been renewed late in the 15th century" (ibid.). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 3, 1936) notes: "The church and that formerly at Sibson are both mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but apparently the church was rebuilt in stone as a chancel and aisleless nave in the middle of the 12th century, and the nave of this period remains. About 1180 a north aisle was added. About 1240 the chancel was rebuilt on a larger scale [...] The early 13th-century font has an octagonal bowl with an incised semicircular arch on each side, standing on a circular central column without capital or base and eight smaller circular shafts with irregular octagonal capitals and bases, all on an octagonal chamfered base stone." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, with arched panels the arches standing on thin colonnettes, sunk into angles. The date may be late C12." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL0902398666] notes: "arish Church. Nave and chancel arch early to mid C12, north aisle c.1180. [...] Font, C12 octagonal bowl with round arch on each face springing from small shafts at the angles with moulded capitals and bases, plain round stem C13 with eight shafts each with moulded capitals and bases, and chamfered plinth." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2020) which notes that the inner basin is now lead lined.