Denham / Daneham / Deneham

There is an entry for this Denham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0386/denham/] [accessed 11 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric not church in it. Gough (1792) notes an early baptismal font on "angular pillars". Sheahan (1862) notes that the church is of Perpendicular character "but the edifice has been modernised [...] The font is ancient." Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "Font: of Purbeck marble, octagonal, tapering bowl, chamfered at the bottom, on each side two slightly recessed panels with pointed heads, circular stem surrounded by eight small shafts, early 13th-century, base and two of the shafts modern." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "There was a church here in the 12th century, [...] but the present chancel is not earlier than the beginning of the 14th century, while the nave was rebuilt about the middle of the 15th century, when the aisles and tower were added [...] The font dates from the early 13th century; it has an octagonal tapering bowl of Purbeck marble, on each side of which are two panels. The bowl rests on a round central stem and eight small shafts, two of which have been renewed." Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". Noted in Pevsner (1960). Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, "two of the subsidiary shafts and the base are modern".