Icomb / Church Icomb / Iacumbe / Iacvmbe / Iccacumb / Iccecumbe / Iccomb / Ikcoumbe

There is an entry for [Church] Icomb [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2122/church-icomb/] [accessed 25 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP2138922627] (1969) reports a "Perpendicular octagonal font with quatrefoils on each face inside the south door". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "There was a church at Iccomb before 1240 [...] The nave and chancel are part of one design and were set out at the end of the 12th century, the nave being finished first and the chancel following early in the 13th century. [...] The octagonal font, which is of late 15th-century date, has quatrefoil panelling on the faces of the bowl and trefoil-headed panels on the stem." A font here is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Perp[endicular] octagonal bowl with quatrefoils on each face, on a stem with trefoiled panels." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, and with a large quatrefoil-in-a-circle-in-a-square on each side; graded underbowl chamfer; octagonal pedestal with trefoil windows/arches on the sides of the stem, the lower base also octagonal, splaying. Wooden cover, flat and octagonal, with metal decoration and ring handle. Polygonal plinth. [NB: there are 13th-century traces of the earlier church, but we have no information on the earlier font]