Towersey / Eie / Eye / Toureseye

No entry found for Towersey in the Domesday survey. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font, near the west end, is circular, columnar, about two feet high, twenty inches in diameter, and stands on two high steps." Parker (1850) has: "Font a plain octagonal shaft". Ditto in Sheahan (1862). Lee (1883) notes: "The font, of hard close-grained freestone -most probably of Norman work- is perfectly plain and circular, with no lining of lead. It stands upon a single step, formerly it was raised on two steps, near the south porch, on the left hand of the door, as one enters; and is protected by a modern carved oak cover of Jacobean character, made apparently to correspond with the pulpit." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "Towersey was a chapelry appendant to the church of Thame, Oxfordshire [...] Under the lancet in the north wall is a round-headed recess, and in a square recess on the south is a 12th-century piscina formed in a scalloped capital [...] The chancel dates from the early 13th century and the nave from about the middle of the 14th century. The tower added in 1854 replaced a 14th-century porch, the archway of which was re-used in the lower stage. The church was restored in 1850 and again in 1877. [...] The font is of a plain cylindrical shape with no detail by which its date can be determined, though it is probably ancient." Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The font is indeed round and plain, but not cylindrical; the bucket-shaped basin stands on a circular plinth. A wooden cover consisting of a busyly carved round platform with four curved ribs converging on a fleuron finial; probably Victorian.