Twyford nr. Winchester / Tuiforde

There are two entries for this Twyford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4824/twyford/] [accessed 9 July 2018], one of which reports a church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "At the time of the Domesday Survey there was a church in Twyford [...] [it] was rebuilt in 1876–7, some features of the former building being re-used in the new work. [...] The first book of the registers runs from 1627 to 171". There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The Bristish Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-145949-st-marys-church-twyford] [accessed 19 August 2011], however, reports: "In N aisle C12 Purbeck octagonal font with blank arcading." Only the octagonal basin of the font appears original, a pair of pointed arches on each of the eight sides; it is raised on a cylindrical pedetal and an octagonal lower base, both of modern appearance. [NB: we have no information on the 11th-century font of this church].