Marsh Gibbon / Gibbemers / Mersa / Merse / Mersee / Mershe Gybewine / Mershe Gibwen / Mersh Gibwyne / Mershe-juxta-Twyford

There are two entries for Marsh [Gibbon] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6423/marsh-gibbon/] [accessed 20 January 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes "the font large, plain, and octagonal" and reports the 1860 renovation of this church by A. Bloomfield. Sheahan (ibid.) dates the earlier fabric of the church to the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "An aisleless cruciform church, probably without any tower, was built here in the middle of the 13th century", but does not mention a font in it. The present font consists of a large octagonal basin with vertical sides, plain but for a large moulding at the upper rim; chamfered underbowl that is plain at the top, then graded moulded; plain short octagonal stam and splaying lower base also octagonal. Wooden cover, octagonal with pyramidal top; counterweight raised; modern?