Dembleby / Delbebi / Dembelbi / Denbelbi

There are three entries for Dembleby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0437/dembleby/] [accessed 20 May 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley (1844), in the context of child baptism by full immersion, notes that "Horbling and Dembleby, Lincolnshire, are extremely small and probably modern fonts formed out of a stem or shaft." The Parish page [http://southlafford.users.btopenworld.com/dembleby.html] informas that "the new church of 1868 was built by the local architect Charles Kirk of Sleaford", and that "used as a font is a rare 12th-century pillar piscina (a small basin used for washing communion vessels). The stem is decorated with chevrons and the bowl housed with a cushion capital with chip carved stars to the top." [NB: since Paley knew of this object before the publication date of his book in 1844, the font must have been 'converted' before the Victorian church was built in 1868, and probably came from the older church which stood about 500 yards to the west until 1867]. The entry for the Victorian church in Lincs to the past [www.lincstothepast.com/St-Lucia-s-church-and-churchyard--Dembleby/906699.record?pt=S] [accessed 20 May 2019] notes: "Inside the church is a 12th century font." Only the side of the basin now facing east is fully decorated, the side with an intricate reticular patterns that appears to include stars, three trumpet scallops with palmettes in the semi-circle on the underbowl; the south side appears plain except for a small notched pattern on the underbowl, the west and north sides plain; there is moulding at the lower end of the basin where it meets the stem; the pedestal base is square with chamfered corners on the side now facing east which is decorated with a zig-zag patterns that covers only the east side and the chamfers, the rest of the stem being plain; the lower base is round-to-square.