Hunsdon / Hamesdun / Hodesdone / Honesdon / Hunesdone / Hunnesdon / Hunsdon

There is an entry for Hunsdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4114/hunsdon/] [accessed 26 October 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907: 202) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "A priest is included among the tenants of Hunsdon Manor recorded in the Domesday Survey, and the church is mentioned in the taxation of Pope Nicholas (1291). [...] The walling of the nave belongs probably to an earlier period than the rest of the building, but the indications are too slight to fix the date; the west tower and north porch belong to the early part of the 15th century; the chancel was rebuilt in the latter part of the 15th century; the north chapel was added about the middle of the 16th century, and the south chapel was built by Lord Hunsdon about 1616. [...] The font, of clunch, is the original one recut, and is probably of 15th-century date."