Stoke Hammond / Stoche / Stoches / Stoke Hamond / Stokes / Stokes Hamund

There is an entry for Stoke [Hammond] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8829/stoke-hammond/] [accessed 7 March 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1850) writes: "The font is late N[orman] and curious, having four detached shafts, and a central stem" [Parker (ibid.) refers to an engraving of the font in Lipscomb (vol. iv, p. 363)]. In Sheahan (1862) after Parker. Noted in Murray (1882) as late-Norman. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period "supported by four detached shafts and a central stem". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The rectory of the church of Stoke Hammond formed part of the original endowment of Bradwell Priory in the 12th century [...] There was apparently an early church here consisting of a chancel and nave, the eastern angle of the south wall of the latter being still visible in the east wall of the south transept. [...] The 14th-century font has a circular bowl supported by a stem surrounded by four circular shafts with moulded capitals which die into the bowl; the shafts, originally detached, are now joined to the stem by modern cement." Noted in Pevsner (1960) with a later date: "Font. C14. On four shafts with moulded capitals. Quatrefoil bowl with the capitals penetrating into re-entrant angles."