Adwell / Aduelle

There is an entry for Adwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6999/adwell/] [accessed 31 October 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. There is no font mentioned in The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850), which probably is an indication that the original font from the early Norman church, of which only the nave remained at that time, had already disappeared. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 8, 1964) notes: "It is likely that Miles Crispin built and endowed the church after the Conquest, [...] although there is no documentary evidence for its existence before 1254. [...] The earliest part of the medieval church building dates from the Norman period [...] The archdeacon's orders of 1759 reveal some neglect. [...] Banks of rubbish against the church walls and on either side of the porch were ordered to be moved. A new door was to be made, the pavement of church and chancel were to be newly laid, the roof of the chancel was to be made good, the font was to have a new cover, and the floor of the reading desk was to be repaired." There are no specifics on the font in the VCH entry. The present [June 2011] font is modern, a plain octagonal basin on a columnar support, probably introduced in Blomfield re-building of the 1860s.