Princes Risborough / Earls Rysebergh / Magna Risberge / Prince's Risborough / Princes Risburgh / Riseberge

There is an entry for [Princes] Risborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8003/princes-risborough/] [accessed 24 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) note an octagonal baptismal font decorated "with heads and roses". In Parker (1850) as octagonal and Perpendicular. Sheahan (1862) describes the font in the same terms as Lysons. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Buckinghsm, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Princes Risborough was granted by Walter Giffard to Notley Abbey [...] at its foundation [i.e., 1154-1164], with the tithes of his demesne lands there. A vicarage, however, was not ordained. [...] Up to the first quarter of the 13th century the church consisted of a chancel and an aisleless nave of the same width as at present, but some 10 ft. shorter. About 1220 north and south aisles were added, and about 1300 the nave and aisles were lengthened by one bay, a tower being probably begun at the same time. A little later, in the 14th century, the chancel was rebuilt, and the clearstory was a 15th-century addition. In modern times the church has been drastically restored [...] The font is modern, with a plain octagonal bowl." Not in Pevsner (1960).