Sydenham / Sidreham

There is an entry for this Sydenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7301/sydenham/] [accessed 1 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain, round, E[arly] E[nglish]". Described in Lee (1883): "The font is circular, first-pointed in style and plain." Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 8, 1964) informs: "The church is mentioned in a charter of 1185–6, [...] but its early history is as obscure as the early history of Sydenham itself [...] The church of St. Mary, dedicated as the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a small building of flint and stone, dating mainly from the 13th century, although considerably restored in the 19th century […] The piscina with fluted bowl and trefoil arch in the south wall and the plain tub font also date from the 13th century. The greater part of all the 13th-century work presumably belongs to the year 1293 or just after". None of them mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The bucket-shaped basin rests on a very short circular moulded base.