Totternhoe / Tattnall / Totenehou / Tottenhoe / Tottnehow

There are two entries for Totternhoe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9921/totternhoe/] [accessed 23 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Totternhoe was granted to Dunstable Priory by Walter de Wahull [...] (c. 1160–90) [...] The early history of the church is entirely destroyed by the late mediaeval alterations. [...] At the west end of the north aisle is a modern font. The old 15th-century font is in the churchyard." Tyrrell-Green (1928) reported that the font was still located unused in the churchyard at his time, and described the font as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts of the 14th or 15th century that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The font appears to have been re-instated into the church in the early 1930s, and is now [January 2015] entirely covered in whitewash. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and two handles; modern.