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No entry for Northmoor found in the Domesday survey. Sherwood and Pevsner (1974) write: "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, carved with a seven-stemmed flower." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 13, 1996) notes: "A dispute over parochial rights in Northmoor between Reading abbey, owner of Stanton Harcourt church, and the abbey of St. Denis in Paris, whose church of Taynton professed an ancient claim, was settled in 1145 × 1148 in favour of the French house. North-moor was created a separate parish, and a church was built shortly after [...] Except for the cylindrical font with its carved sprig of stylized leaves nothing survives from the 12th-century church." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2017): "The tub font has slightly raised plain lower and upper bands, with a recessed central area bearing a raised single flowering stem on the E face. The stem bears some little roots at the base, three lateral leaves on each side, and three terminal buds. Each leaf stem has one or two incised lines along its length, and ends with a terminal swelling. The three buds at the apex each have a central depression [...] There seems to be no record in the literature as to where the font came from, and it would seem likely that it is the only remaining Romanesque feature from an original church on this site, which is referred to by VCH. Although tradition has it that this is a Tree of Life, the botanical theme of the flowering stem on the font is continued in some of the later 13thc. carving." The flat wooden cover appears modern.