Harlington nr. Bedford / Herlingdone / Herlyngdon

There is an entry for Harlington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0330/harlington/] [accessed 21 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period in this church. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Harlington was granted to the priory of Dunstable by Ralph Pyrot before he himself took the monastic habit at Woburn" [i.e., ca. 1300]. The VCH (ibid.) further notes that there is 13th-century work near the chancel "against which the 14th-century work was built". The VCH (ibid.) describes the font: "The font, at the west end of the nave, is good early 14th-century work, with a stem of eight small shafts nad an octagonal bowl, each face set back from a moulding above and a curious stepped cresting below, and having shields on which are incised simple heraldic charges, cheverons, bars, bends, &c, but these seem to be of modern date." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, on eight shafts. On the bowl eight shields and below an unusual crenellation frieze."