Broughton / Brobtone / Broughton nr. Banbury

There is an entry for this Broughton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4238/broughton/] [accessed 6 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 notes: "a Norman font consisting of a circular basin with cable moulding on a circular pedestal". The entry for this parish in the Voctoria County History (Oxon., vol. 9, 1969) notes: "The written evidence for Broughton church begins in 1224, the date of the first known presentation, [...] but the font suggests that a church was in existence there c. 1100 [...] The church of ST. MARY [...] dates almost entirely from the 14th century and contains some excellent work of that period. The circular font with its cablemoulding [...] is the only evidence of a previous 12thcentury church." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C12, with cable-moulding round the rim." The bucket-shaped basin is plain but for a combination of zig-zag pattern and a thick rope moulding below the upper rim, and is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal stem; the pyramidal wooden cover is of later date, probably modern, with cusped arrises, and bears an inscription with the text of John 3:5 around the bottom sides.