Salford nr. Chipping Norton

There is an entry for this Salford in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2828/salford/] [accessed 22 July 2014, but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. A font here is noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman. A round bowl with an arcade of blind intersecting arches." The font at Salford St. Mary's has suffered the fate of the octagonal fad; the basin was originally cylindrical and probably tub-shaped, the upper half decorated with a simple arcade of intersecting round arches, typical of the Norman period; at some time in the past someone chiseled off part of the lower half and turned it into an ugly octagonal chamfer to match the shape of the stem on which it stands [NB: from the little that is left below the arcade there appears to have been a second level of decoration on the original basin sides]. Octagonal plinth. Flat round wooden cover; appears modern [NB: there appear to be two covers, both flat and round, but one is totally plain while the other has metal ornamentation and a ring handle -- cf. Images area].