Bletchingdon No. 1 / Bletchingham / Blicestone

There are two entries for Bletchingdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5017/bletchingdon/] [accessed 6 December 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The earliest evidence for the existence of a church at Bletchingdon is the grant of tithes made by Robert d'Oilly in 1074 [...] The church [...] is in the main a 15th-century building, but it has been much restored. Traces of earlier work can be seen in a blocked window on the north side of the chancel, and in a fragment of Romanesque carving (probably the lintel of a former south doorway) built into the south wall of the nave [...] in 1682 Dr. Mill [cf. infra] declared [...] that the font was broken [...] Mill himself did something to restore decency. In 1701 he [...] perhaps installed the octagonal font of grey marble, which appears to belong to this period" ["Dr. Mill" was in Bletchingdon between 1682 and 1707, as noted in the VCH (ibid., fn 310: "Par. Rec. Mill's Bk. f. 72."] The VCH (ibid., fn346) mentions "Buckler's drawing of font [...] MS. Top. Oxon. a 65, f. 97" [in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This is the font noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) as "Cup-shaped C18", surely the replacement font. It is an octagonal mounted font consisting of an octagonal basin, plain but for a moulding around the upper sides, raised on a two-piece octagonal stem, also plain, and a splaying lower base of the same shape; octagonal wooden cover.