Bix / Bix Brand

There are two entries for Bix [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7285/bix/] [accessed 10 January 2018], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. A paper by E.A. Greening Lamborn (1936) [http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1936/lamborn.pdf] [accessed 10 January 2018] notes: "The desecrated church of St. James, Bix Brand [...], lies isolated in a combe [,,,] The church was unroofed and abandoned in 1875. The tiles and font and some pieces of early sixteenth century glass, with the registers1, and a memorial tablet to the Rev. Henry Heathcote, B.D., twenty years rector, who died in September, 1822, were removed to the new church [...] The font from the old church lies derelict in the new churchyard. It is of the tub-shaped Norman form, and has lost its lead and its rim." Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) mention both churches but not the font. The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 16, 2011) notes: "The now-ruined church of Bix Brand is a two-cell Romanesque structure with late medieval alterations and later rebuilding [...] The date of initial construction is difficult to determine, but the character of the masonry and other features make the early 12th century seem most likely [...] By 2006 it was in very poor repair [...] Only two grave slabs were left in the churchyard, which had formerly been used as an animal pen." [NB: the new church, at Bix Common, is 19th-century].