Tixover / Tekesore / Tekyssovere / Ticesoure / Tichesora / Tichesoure / Tichesovre / Tixouer / Tykeshovre / Tykesoevere / Tykesore / Tykessore / Tyxore / Tyxover

There is an entry for Tixover [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9700/tixover/] [accessed 22 July 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church, in it, though there probably was one there, Thurlby (2005) notes: "an illustration in the Victoria County History shows the font located in the tower, although today [i.e., ca. 2005] it is in the west bay of the north nave arcade". The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "Tixover was a chapelry of Ketton, and the advowson belonged to a prebend of Lincoln. The advowson was probably given to the Bishop of Lincoln at the instance of Maud, queen of Henry I (d. 1118), at the same time as the manor [...] The tower belongs to a 12th-century church the rest of which was rebuilt early in the 13th century [...] massive Norman tower [...] The font, now under the tower, has a plain square bowl with chamfered angles, standing on a slender modern shaft and four legs with moulded bases. [...] The font formerly stood against the west respond of the south arcade and rested on a brick base; a small fragment of one of the original feet, apparently of 13th-century date, was in use as a doorstep. This has now been replaced at the south-east angle, and the remaining feet copied from it. The bowl is wider at the top than at the bottom." The illustration of the interior plan of the church shows the location of the font beneath the tower in the VCH (ibid.) Pevsner (1984) does not mention the font, a likely indication that it is modern; the church itself goes back to the 12th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church.