Emmington No. 1 / Imintone

There is an entry for Emmington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7402/emmington/] [accessed 31 October 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) does not mention the font in this church [cf. Index entry for Emmington No. 2 for a stoup noted in this source]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 8, 1964) notes: "A priest at Emmington is mentioned in about 1190, and from the first recorded presentation in 1224 [...] he church of ST. NICHOLAS is a small stone building dating mainly from the 19th century. It comprises a chancel, nave, and 14th-century tower. Before they were rebuilt in 1873–4 the have and chancel appear also to have been substantially of the 14th century, [...] but in the course of demolition the architect found what he believed to be 'relics of Norman masonry worked in the walls', thus suggesting 'that an earlier church stood on the same spot' [...] The round font on a moulded circular base appears to date from the 13th century." Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) note: "Font. Cup-shaped, on a moulded base; C13." The moulding is actually part of the basin lower side, of the type that can be described as 'water-catching'; the basin has stone-insert repairs at the upper rim, which is itself moulded and lead-lined; the base is round and made of multiple blocks, and may be a later replacement.