Lillingstone Lovell / Great Lyllingstone / Lelluygestan Lillingestan / Lillingston Lovell / Lillingstone Lowell / Liwingstane / Lylenstone / Lyllingstone Dansey / Lyllingstone Lovell

There are two entries for Lillingstone [Lovell] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7140/lillingstone-lovell/] [accessed 18 January 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) remarks that the tower of the church dates from Henry III's reign [1216-1272], whereas the rest of the church is later, of the 14th century; Sheahan (ibid.) does not mention a font in it but notes that the "church was entirely repaired in 1777, with foreign oak". The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) and the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) note the date of this church in the Early English period, but they both report the font as modern, thereby indicating the old font had disappeared before 1850. The VCH (ibid.) further adds that by the late-12th century half of the advowson of the church was held by Sybil Dangerville, which puts the original church here before 1200 [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the old font].