Adderbury / Edburgberie

There are three entries for Adderbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4635/adderbury/] [accessed 1 November 2017], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007] notes: "The new font, by Plowman, was given by the Rev. W. C. Risley, now vicar of Deddington" [probably ca. 1831, when the church was repaired and re-pewed -- there is no mention in Gardner of the old font]. Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Perp[endicular] style. Designed in 1831 by John Plowman." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon, vol. 9, 1969) notes: "The likelihood is that Adderbury church was founded before the Conquest: the village was named after St. Eadburga (fn. 606) and in 1270 the Bishop of Winchester claimed that Athelstan had given the church to his see in 1014 or 1015 [...] The medieval font was replaced in 1831 by one designed by John Plowman and given by the Revd. W. C. Risley." The VCH entry (ibid.) adds in a footnote: "For Buckler drawings of the medieval font see MS. Top. Oxon. a 65, no. 31" [i.e., collection in the Bodleian Library]. The present baptismal font at Adderbury St. Mary's appears Victorian, from the 19th century, in the style of the octagonal fonts of the Perpendicular period, with the usual deeply-cut panels decorated with quatrefoils inscrbing a symbol or motif. The wooden cover, provided with remarkably designed handles, has five quadrangular steps with a fleur-de-lis finial is probably of the same period. [NB: a wall-mounted monument seems to indicate that there was an earlier font here in the mid-16th century].