Little Kimble / Chenebelle / Kimbel Parva / Little Kymbell / Parva Kynbelle

There is an entry for [Little] Kimble [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8207/little-kimble/] [accessed 25 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Batty (1848). Rickman (1850) reports: "The font is plain, round." Sheahan (1862) has: "The circular font is unusually large, and very plain." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "Until the middle of the 13th century the church consisted of a chancel narrower than the present one, and a nave of the same size as that now existing, but at this date the present chancel arch was inserted unsymmetrically and the chancel widened by rebuilding the south wall. It is thus probable that the nave walls and the western half at least of the north wall of the chancel are of 13th-century date or earlier [...] The font has a large round tub-shaped bowl probably of 12th-century date." Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ): "round tub-shaped bowl, moulded base, of crude workmanship, late 12th or early 13th-century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period. The Historic Churches Preservation Tust notes "a simple Norman font" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 13 September 2005, in www.historicchurches.org.uk]. The wooden font cover is an octagonal puramid with crocketed arrises and floriated finial.