Stevington No. 1 / Stethintun / Stevyngton / Steynton / Stiuentone / Stiventone / Stivetone / Styventon

There is an entry for Stevington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9853/stevington/] [accessed 11 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it]. Cox & Harvey (1907) liast a baptismal font of the Early English period in this church. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The lower part of the tower is Saxon work, and there was doubtless a contemporary aisleless nave and chancel; but about 1320 a general rebuilding was begun from the east [...] The font, which is for the most part modern, has a bowl, quatrefoil on plan, resting on four detached shafts ranged round one that is octagonal, and these have 13th-century capitals and bases". [NB: we have no information on the font from the original Anglo-Saxon church].