Ludgershall nr. Salisbury / Litlegarsele / Ludgarshall / Lugarshall / Lurgishall

There is an entry for this Ludgershall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU2650/ludgershall/] [accessed 9 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is documented in an 1805 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851). The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "A church stood at Ludgershall in the 12th century. [...] The nave, which has thick walls, is of the 12th century: surviving features of that date are a window in the north wall, a blocked doorway in the north wall, and the inner arch of the south doorway. [...] The registers survive from 1609." The church was restored in the 1870s; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The Parish site with notes from historian Philip Walker has: "St. James was founded in the twelfth-century, the Prioress of Amesbury having the gift of the living [...] At the West end of the nave stands a lead- lined octagonal stone font which is about seven hundred years old." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU2632250886] notes; "Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C14 and C16, restored 1873 [...] Font at west end, probably C15, limestone, octagonal on base." The font appears plain, except for a graded moulding on the underbowl, and is of a design common between the 13th and 15th centuries in Britain, octagonal basin on an octagonal pedestal base.