Dymock / Dimmoc / Dimoch

There is an entry for Dymock in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO7031/dymock/] [accessed 6 December 2018]; it mentions a priest and "0.1 church lands" in it, but not a church, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (vol. 12, 2010) notes: "Dymock church, standing high above the river Leadon in a large churchyard, was built anew in the late 11th century [...] 1174) and replaced a pre-Conquest church served by a priest holding 12 a. in 1066 [...] Dymock is the largest in a group of early Norman churches ascribed to a 'Dymock school' of sculpture"; the VCH entry (ibid.) informs about extensive alterations to the building in 1727, and "A small early 18th-century wooden font was acquired at some point"; further alterations and renovations were made in the 1870s, at which time "Prominent members of the congregation such as the Thackwells paid for many new fittings, which included a font and a pulpit, and much of the window glass was replaced by stained glass memorials to individual parishioners" (ibid.). Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) report: "Expensive stone font by Middleton, carved by Boulton" [i.e., John Middleton, the Victorian architect responsible for the 1860s renovation; Richard Lockwood Boulton: architect, carver, mason, sculptor of the Victorian period with a workshop in Cheltenham]. The entry for Dymock in The Royal Forest of Dean [http://www.fweb.org.uk/dean/towns/dymock.htm] [accessed 18 October 2008] notes "a 17th century turned oak font" in this church [NB: cf. supra for a different date for the wooden font, the 18th century]. There is also a modern stone font in this church, a round basin with a band of linked rosettes all around and, at four sides, demi-figures of angels holding blank shields over projected stylised buttresses the length of the central octagonal pedestal base; the latter is moulded at the bottom. Wooden round cover with Latin cross finial. We have no information on the location of the 18th-century font, but the modern font is in the usual location: in the west end of the nave, by the south entrance [NB: the earlier parts of the church are Norman, but we have no information on the original font of this church]