Swainswick / Swanswick / Swayneswycke

Noted in Tunstall (1848?) as a Norman font. The Handbook for travellers… (1869) describes dates the font and the tower to the Early English period. The font actually appears to be a composite font made up of different parts: the basin is octagonal with lain sides and a moulded underbowl, probably 15th-century; it is raised on an earlier base [12th-13th century?] made of a plain cylindrical stem and a round lower base with graded moulding, and a rectangular plinth. The wooden cover, probably Victorian, is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). [NB: the building goes back to to Norman times, as indicated by the entrance arch decorated with zigzag pattern, but we have no information of the earlier font of this church]