Upton cum Chalvey / Chalfheye / Chalveye / Opetone / Upton-cum-Chalvey / Uptone

No entry found for Upton-cum-Chalvey in the Domesday survey. Sheahan (1862) notes: "The font is supposed to be co-eval with the oldest part of the church", which Sheahan (ibid.) dates to about 1050 and therefore make the font pre-Norman. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "his church was granted to Merton by Payn de Beauchamp [i.e., Payne or Peganus de Beauchamp, lord of Bedford, d.1156] [...] The nave and central tower appear to date from the early part of the 12th century, while the chancel was added or rebuilt, and the nave lengthened about 1160 [...] The building having become very dilapidated, services were practically suspended after 1835. The new church at Slough was built in 1837 [...] A general restoration [of the old church at Upton] was undertaken in 1850 [...] The font has a 12th-century circular bowl enriched with arcading in low relief, and standing on a modern stem and base." The font consists of a tub-shaped cylindrical basin with vertical sides which are adorned with a blind arcade of round arches; the inner well is lined with lead; flat and plain wooden cover; the stem of the base is cylindrical and plain, with a small lower base; both stem and lower base are modern; plain octagonal plinth. [NB: this may be the font that Pevsner (1960) notes in Slough]. Chalvey itself has a modern church from ca. 1860 and a Caen-stone font of the same date.