Easington nr. Watlington / Esidone

There is an entry for this Easington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU6697/easington/] [accessed 27 July 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain N[orman], round." Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "a plain cylindrical Norman font". Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). Not cylindrical, contrary to Kelly's description [cf. supra], but a bucket-shaped basin raised on a wide cylindrical base with a chamfered top; some damage to the upper rim sides; the inner basin lead-lined; on a round plinth. The wooden cover is flat and round, plain; it may have had a finial or handle of some sort, now missing. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 18, 2016) notes: "In the later Anglo-Saxon period Easington (as part of the Readanora estate) was apparently dependent on the mother church at Pyrton. [...] A church was built in Easington before 1148, possibly with its own burial ground and, judging by the Norman tub font, with baptismal rights. [...] The earliest surviving features are 12th-century [...] The church appears to have been rebuilt or much altered in the early 14th century;" the VCH entry footnotes "font illustrated in Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. a 66, no. 229." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "The tub-shaped font dates also to the 12thc. [...] Situated at the W end of the nave opposite the N door, the font is a plain, cylindrical, lead-lined tub with a broad brim, tapering inwards towards the bottom. A shallow runnel encircles the outside of the bowl, approximately half way down. The font is supported by a short, squat, circular pedestal with a broad chamfer round the top edge and a similar, shallow runnel around the outside, again half way down. Beneath is a large, shallow step in the form of a wheel. The lead lining of the tub extends to cover the inner half of the rim, ending in a dark-coloured seam. A further strip of lead covers the outer half of the rim and is worn away in places. [...] The runnel encircling the font at its mid point may be a shallow decoration or, if it runs right through, a join mark. If so, the bowl was made in two halves."