Ambrosden / Ameresdone

There is an entry for Ambrosden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6019/ambrosden/] [accessed 10 November 2016]; it does not mention cleric or church in it. A font in this chirch is described in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846): "Perpendicular, octagon, cup-shaped, with a quatrefoil in each face; the shaft plain." The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is P[erpendicular]". The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "The only survival of the 12th-century church is a Romanesque north doorway" , and quotes from the churchwardens' accounts: "They record the following items of expenditure: in 1687, £1 4s. 'for a new cover of wainscot for the font', and £1 6s. 'for a crane of iron for the cover . . . And a lock'". Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal, with a quatrefoil on each face; C14." The Parish web site [http://ambrosdenchurch.org.uk/history.html] [accessed 12 June 2012] notes: "The first recorded priest was Willielmus, Sacerdos de Ambrosden (William priest of Ambrosden) in 1106 AD [...] the font is 14th century, or perhaps earlier, and until 1867 it stood midway between the south and north doors, but the cover is believed to be late 18th century."