Wilcote / Widelicote / Wilcott / Wivelicota

There is an entry for Wilcote [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3715/wilcote/] [accessed 29 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007] reports: "a neat marble font", which probably means Georgian or later [NB: Gardner (ibid.) reports that the south doorway appears "Saxon or early Norman", but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 12, 1990) notes: "The church of 'Wivelicota', granted to Oseney abbey in 1151 by Ralph Basset, son of the justiciar, may have been Wilcote, although Ralph is not otherwise recorded as having any connexion with the place. That church was subsequently lost by the abbey. [...] The earliest incontrovertible evidence of a church at Wilcote lies in the fabric, part of which is of the later 12th century [...] The nave and chancel are of the later 12th century", and refers to the the former source and font, but adds that, in the renovations of 1868, "a carved stone font" was added. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church, or on the whereabouts of the font reported in Gardner]