Lydney / Lindenee

There is an entry for this Lyndney in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO6303/lydney/] [accessed 11 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 5, 1996) notes: "Lydney church passed to Lire abbey (Eure), in Normandy, presumably by gift of the abbey's founder William FitzOsbern (d. 1071) [...] The church has an octagonal stone font of the 15th century" [the VCH entry is footnoted: "Trans. B.G.A.S., xliv, 195"]". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Perp[endicular, octagonal, the bowl with quatrefoils; scraped." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO6332102527] cites Verey. The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, each decorated with a rosette inscribed in a quatrefoiled panel; graded underbowl chamfer; moulded octagonal pedestal base on a very small octagonal plinth, the latter probably modern. Wooden cover of Jacobean-type design: an octagonal boxy platform with openwork serves as base to the tall scroll-shaped ribs that join at the finial. [NB: the font is now located at the east of the nave, just shy of the chancel arch; probably not the original location]