Bucknell / Buchehelle / Bucknell nr. Bicester

There is an entry for this Bucknell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5625/bucknell/] [accessed 6 December 2016] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) reports an octagonal baptismal font here, "quite plain". The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The earliest evidence yet found for the existence of a church at Bucknell dates from 1074 [...] In 1074 Robert d'Oilly granted two-thirds of the demesne tithes of Bucknell, along with those of some 70 other manors, to the church of St. George in Oxford castle. [...] The church is a fine example of 13th-century architecture, but the massive tower, placed between chancel and nave, is 12thcentury and belongs to an earlier church [...] a plain octagonal font on an octagonal base of two tiers", and mentions a "Buckler drawing in MS. Top. Oxon. a 65 f. 129" [Bodleian Library, Oxford]. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated]." [NB: the VCH (ibid.) adds: "The earliest evidence yet found for the existence of a church at Bucknell dates from 1074", so it is quite possible there may have been an early Norman font later replaced by the present one]