Amersham / Agmodesham / Agmondesham / Amodesham / Amundesham / Augmodesham / Egmondesham / Elmodesham / Elnodesham / Hagmondesham

There are six entries for Amersham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9697/amersham/] [accessed 26 October 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) reports a modernised church with some traces of late-Medieval in the piers of the nave; the font is modern: "The font is of veined marble". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "Amersham Church was bestowed by Geoffrey de Mandeville, first Earl of Essex, upon Walden Abbey (Essex) in his foundation charter c. 1140 [...] The [present] church dates from the 13th century [...] The whole fabric has been much restored [...] The font dates from the restoration of 1870." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font(s)]. The present medieval font in this church is originally from elsewhere: octagonal mounted baptismal font, the sides of the basin ornamented with large quatrefoil motifs; the chamfer of the underbowl is octagonal and plain, as are the pedestal of the base and the lower base. The font has a round wood cover, modern. A floor stone near the font states "This Mediaeval font from Crownthorpe, Norfolk was given to the church in memory of Pauline Alison Steves. 1952-1972 by her parents Brothers and Friends". There is no mention in Pevsner & Wilson's (1999) entry for Crownthorpe, Norfolk. The entry for Crownthorpe in White's 1883 Directory of Norfolk reports an "ancient font" still in the church of St. James [NB: the church at Crownthorpe was declared redundant and, later, in 1988, became a private dwelling]. [NB: Pevsner mentions a table-top font C13 at Amersham but we have no information to confirm this, especially since Pevsner mentions it in the introduction, but not under the church itself].