Aston Clinton / Aston / Aston Clynton / Estone / Estone

There is an entry for Aston [Clinton] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8712/aston-clinton/] [accessed 25 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1850) notes the font in this church as modern. Sheahan (1862) notes simply "the font is of stone". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church probably consisted of an aisleless nave and chancel up to the latter half of the 13th century. [...] The octagonal font is modern and of early 15thcentury detail, but in the south aisle is preserved the basin of a 12th-century font of crude workmanship ornamented with alternate raised and sunk rosettes." The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ) reports that the old font was restored to the church, probably after Parker's time: "Font: modern: at E. end of S. aisle, bowl of original font, top worn or broken away, but ornament indicates shallow arcading, below it series of circular flowers of sunk shell pattern, 12th-century, much defaced, used as a flower-pot in a garden, and restored to the church in the 19th century." Tyrrell-Green (1928) reports the discarded basin of a baptismal font of the Norman period, ornamented "with sunk figures of corresponding design" [i.e., boss motif] around the basin sides.