Cucklington / Cocintone

There is an entry for Cucklington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST7527/cucklington/] [accessed 23 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) report a Norman font in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, with fluting at the foot of the bowl." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7552227775] has a confusing description of the font: "font probably of 1705 between Norman style". The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) reads: "The font is the only Romanesque feature. The font is located centrally at the W end of church. Since the tower is elsewhere, there is little room between the font & the W wall. Its plinth elides with a dais against that wall; there are pews against the wall. It is of a light yellow/grey stone. The font consists of a relatively shallow bowl; cylindrical above its curved bottom. There is a fine ring of fluting around the lower part of the bowl, with a scalloped upper edge and the tops of the scallops emphasized with semi-circular incisions and by having triangular recesses incised between them. The rim has no chamfer nor obvious signs of a previous lock-fitting. There is no lead. Internal sides slope into a flattish bottom. The bowl stands on a cylindrical stem with a roll necking at the top and a low waterholding base standing on a round hollow-chamfered socle, which in turn stands on a plinth with its E angles cut away flush to the base of the font. The condition is generally good, but there are renewals to the base at the W, and to the to the bowl rim at the NE, NW and S. Pevsner (1958) describes the font as Norman, but the EH listing text suggests a 1705 date in a Norman style, possibly because the rim lacks signs of lock fittings. This is likely to be the result of shaving the rim (it is unusually regular)." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes: "There was a church at Cucklington in 1264", but it mentions no font in it.