Hampstead Norrey's / Cifrewast / Hampstead Ferrers / Hampstead Norreys / Hampstead Norris / Hampstead Noons / Hamsted / Hanstede / East Hampstead

There is an entry for Hampstead [Norris] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5276/hampstead-norris/] [accessed 12 May 2015], and mentions a church and half-a-hide of church lands in it. Hewett & Hewett (1844) report that a curious old font "which was elaborately carved with the figures of birds, fish, foliage, &c., was decidedly the most handsome, if not the most ancient, in this county [...] having been removed out of the church, was long used as a horse-trough in a neighbouring farm-yard, and afterwards conveyed to London; where, in a garden planted with flowers, it remained for some time. What had become of this desecrated relic was long unknown, till, after much perseverance, I succeeded in tracing it to a village in Bucks; where, I am happy to say, it has lately been renovated by the Rev. J. Reade; being again restored to its original purpose in his parish church, at Stone, in that county." In Murray (1882). The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1924) dates the earliest part of the fabric of this church to ca. 1170 and notes the original font here was moved to Stone, Buckinghamshire. The present font in this church is modern, located towards the west end of the nave, on the north side, near the north entranceway [NB: this church does not have a south door]. Baxter (CRSBI, 2008) notes: "Substantially 12thc. single nave", which may be the date of the old font as well [NB: the later font donated to the Hampstead Norrey's church in 1768 is not included in this Index]. [NB: unclear whether or not this is the font at Stone Church, Bucks., which came from Hampstead Norrey's, Berks. (cf. Bond, p. 188 & 189 and Cox, 1907, p. 187)]