Loxley / Locksley / Lochesham / Locheslei

There are three entries [variant spelling] for this Loxley in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2552/loxley/] [accessed 24 November 2014], one of which, in the tenancy of the Count of Meulan in 1086, reports a priest but does not mention a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "There was a priest on the Count of Meulan's holding in 1086. [...] Robert FitzOdo made a grant of the advowson of the church to the Priory of Stone in Staffordshire. [...] The parish church [...] is a small building consisting of a chancel, nave, and a south-west tower, with a vestry south of the chancel. The tower is medieval, probably a part of the church dedicated by Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester, in 1286 [...] The remainder of the church was rebuilt about the middle of the 18th century"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. There is no mention of a font either in the English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: SP2585453052] (1967). The present font is noted in Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/loxley---st-nicholas.html] [accessed 24 November 2014: "The slender font nearby looks c1800 and is undecorated"; the font is shown as octagonal all over, the basin plain except for a thin moulding on the chamfered underbowl, with two thin mouldings at top and bottom of the otherwise plain pedestal base, the lower base splaing out.