Oxford No. 11 / Oxeneford

There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 9 November 2016], two of which mention a church in each. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes: "The chapel existed c. 1100 when the surviving chancel arch was built [...] a chapel of St. Peter-in-the-East. In 1584 the inhabitants of Holywell were christened, churched, and buried in St. Cross, but paid their dues for those services to the vicar of St. Peter's. [...] The font is 19th-century". In his history of St, Cross Church, Jones (2011), mentions a new baptismal font newly introduced to the west end of the church in 1840, "but by 1882 a font was by the south door"; the latter may have been a still later font which Jones found reported as "designed by the late Mr Buckeridge" in the St Cross Parish Magazine (issue of March 1875). [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) here].