Tidmarsh / Edmers / Tedmers / Thedmerse / Thudmers / Thydemers / Tidmarch / Tudemershe / Tydmerssh

No entry found for Tidmarsh in the Domesday survey. Described and illustrated in Keyser (1911): "The font [...] is very interesting, and almost exactly like one at Welford, with a circular bowl with a plain plinth. Round the bowl is a series of interlacing semicricular arches resting on slender shafts with round capitals and bases. It is very late Norman of quite the end of the 12th century." Described and illustrated in the Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923): "The nave is that of a late 12th-century church, the eastern part of which was replaced about 1220 by the present chancel arch and apsidal chancel. [...] in 1897 the church was completely restored [...] The font, which was found some eighty years ago buried in the churchyard, is of the late 12th century. It is circular and stands on a plinth, while round the bowl is carved an arcade of interlacing arches supported on small shafts with crude capitals and bases." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a group of Norman fonts the basins of which are decorated with an arcade of intersecting arches [T-G's list includes: Purley (Berks.), Llanfihangel Abercywyn (Carmarthen), Tidmarsh (Berks.), East Horndon (Essex), Sandridge (Herts), St. Ives (Hunts.), Oakham (Rutland), Great Durnford (Wilts.)]. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) as a Romanesque baptismal font with a basin made of "an oolitic limestone [...] unlined. It stands on a modern, chamfered cylindrical plinth. According to notes in the church, it was discovered buried in the churchyard in 1834." A recent illustration of this font by the Oxford Church Illustration in Flickr appears in http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/223614931/ [accessed 9 September 2007] with a note: "Norman font at Tidmarsh, possibly re-cut during the C19 restoration here". Both the CRSBI and the Oxford Church Illustrations mention the baptismal font at Welford, also in Berkshire, as being of similar design.