Whissendine No. 2 / Wessinden / Wichingedene / Wicsinden / Wissenden / Wixenden

There are two entries for Whissendine [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8214/whissendine/] [accessed 20 July 2015, neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (1935) notes: ""The church of Whissendine was given by Earl Simon de St. Liz III to St. Andrew's, Northampton, between 1174 and 1184 [...] No part of the present building is older than the 13th century. A church is known to have existed in the 12th century [...] The 14th-century font has a small octagonal bowl, four sides of which have sunk quatrefoil panels, the designs on the other sides being merely set out. The stem, base and cover are modern." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils. Modern shaft and base" [NB: the latter probably Victorian] [NB: this is an interesting example of unfinished font -- the mason has carved three panels completely, all three with round quatrefoils; the other fives sides of the basin were marked, incised with a pointer with pointed quatrefoils, ready for the carving, but never finished]. [cf. Index entry for Whissendine No. 1 for a possible font from the earlier church]