Farringdon nr. Alton / Faredone / Faringdon / Faringdon Episcopi / Farndon / Ferendon / Upper Farringdon

No entry found for this Farringdon / Faringdon in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "From its earliest existence at some date between the Domesday Survey and the taxation return of 1291 [...] the church of Faringdon [sic] was held by the bishop of Exeter [...] The font has a large cylindrical tapering bowl, standing on a low pedestal in the form of four hollow-fluted capitals of late twelfth-century date; the base is square." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU7132335379] reports "a bowl font meting on 4 C13 capitals" in it. This is surely a composite font, all three parts not created to form the font; the bucket-shaped basin lacks any decoration and is therefore of uncertaing date; the four capitals that make up the upper base have been identified as 12th-century [cf. supra]; the quadrangular lower base appears to have been cut from a larger piece, and bears indentations no unlike those meant for outer colonnettes in some font bases. [NB: we have no information on how or when the font was put together]. The oak cover consists of a round and flat platform with four vertical scroll ribs atop.