Clixby / Clisbi

There is an entry for Clixby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1004/clixby/] [accessed 21 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. No entry for Low Toynton found in the Domesday survey, though there are other 'Toyntons' in Lincolnshire, none of which appears to correspond to this one. The entry for Low Toynton in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is curiously sculptured". It is noted in its new location in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. From St Peter, Low Toynton. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Against the stem eight figures, against the bowl a flower, another flower, an angel, a seated figure, a standing figure, another angel, a branch, and two panels with two figures each. What chracterizes the figures is the way their long hair stands on and around their heads (cf. Huttoft, etc.)." The font consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base, and a moulded lower base of the octagonal-to-square shape; the stem has a pointed niche on each side, with a standing figure in it; the figures are characterised by their 'big hair' [akin to those found often on fonts of the same period in East Anglia], and, although they are much weathered, most of them appear to hold an object likely to identify them as eight of the twelve Apostles; on two of the basin sides are four other figures of the same characteristics, all holding objects, one of them clearly a sword, the symbol of Paul the Apostle; the other sides of the basin are decorated with the the motifs noted in Pevsner et al., above; the transition between the volumes of the font is marked with thick mouldings; the niches of the stem have floral motifs in the spandrels. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2753170494] reports: "Parish church, now redundant. 1811 re-using mid C12 fragments, late C19", but it mentions no font in it.