Lidlington / Lilincletone / Lillingestan / Litincletone / Litlington / Lutlingeton / Lutlyngton / Lytlington

There is an entry for Lidlington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9938/lidlington/] [accessed 18 September 2015], but there is no mention of cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "There appears to be little doubt that Lidlington Church belonged to Barking Abbey, which owned the whole parish from before the Survey [i.e., Domesday, 1086] down to the Dissolution [1536-1541]. [...] The old church [...] is now in a ruinous condition and disused [...] now used for burial purposes only, stands in a prettily wooded churchyard on rising ground on the opposite side of the main road [...] The modern church is of 13th-century style," There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The present baptismal font is probably from the same date as the new church, of the 1880s; it consists of a cylindrical basin with mouldings at the upper and lower rims, the sides decorated with four trefoil-in-a-circle motifs at 90-degree angles; cylindrical pedestal base with roll mouldings; octagonal lower base; round plinth with 'priest's stone'; flat wooden cover, also modern. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font from the original church].