Weston Underwood / Weston-by-Launden / Weston-by-Olney / Weston Underwode / Westone

There are three entries for this Weston [Underwood] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8650/weston-underwood/] [accessed 8 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noted in Parker (1850) and in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Sheahan (1862), however, describes it as "plain Early English". The Victoria County History notes: "The nave probably incorporates part of the walling of a 12th century church to which aisles were added about the middle of the 13th century. The chancel arch was rebuilt in the first half of the 14th century, but by the middle of the century the condition of the fabric must have become very unsatisfactory, as its restoration was undertaken by John Olney, lord of the manor, about 1368, in which year the church was refounded [...] The font is of the 15th century and has an elaborate octagonal tapering bowl. In each face of the octagonal stem is a trefoiled ogee-headed panel containing a shield of arms: (I) a cheveron with three fleurs de lis thereon, for Pever; (2) a chief indented; (3) an embattled fesse between six crosslets fitchy with three crescents on the fesse, for Olney; (4) a plain fesse; (5) an embattled fesse with three crosslets fitchy in the chief; (6) a plain cross, for Hussey; (7) an embattled fesse with a pierced molet thereon; (8) two bars with three roundels in chief, for Hungerford. The pyramidal wooden cover is of the 17th century."