Stow No. 1 / Stou / Stowe / Stow in Lindsey / Stow in Lindsay

There is an entry for this Stow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0934/stow/] [accessed 15 April 2019]; it mentions a church in it. The entry for this abbey in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The monastery of St. Mary, Stow, was founded early in the eleventh century [ca. 1040?] for secular clerks [...] After the Conquest Bishop Remigius found that the house had been for some time desolate by the carelessness of its rulers; and in 1091 he determined to convert it into a Benedictine abbey. [...] In 1109 Henry I issued a new charter, [...] at the desire probably of Robert Bloett, Remigius's successor, [...] for the restoration of the abbey of Eynsham. The monks of Stow were soon afterwards transferred thither, and the estates of their church were annexed to the see of Lincoln." Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Fragments of the [...] C12 font [...] remain, with interlaced blank arcading." [NB: on 3 March 2008, as I was working on the Coxe drawings collection in the Oriental Reading Room of the Bodleian Library, another reader working nearby approached me and asked if he could look at my material; on seeing that I was interested in fonts he asked me if I knew about the one in Stow-in-Lindsay, which I didn't off the cuff -- he then told me that, about 30 years ago there had been three fragments found originally in the tower and later moved to a cupboard for safekeeping -- he (I did not get his name) noted that the fragments had an intersecting arcade carved all around -- he also mentioned that there was a later font, which would correspond to the one listed in BSI as Stow No. 2 // mt]