Clanfield / Chenefelde

There is an entry for Clanfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2802/clanfield/] [accessed 12 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is P[erpendicular], cup-shaped, panelled with quatrefoils and roses." Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font is octagonal and panelled". In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C15. Octagonal, with a quatrefoil on each face. The base is new." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 15, 2006) notes: "clanfield had its own church by the late 12th century, though the former minster church at Bampton retained burial rights until the early 16th [...] A chapel subject to Bampton, within whose late Anglo-Saxon parochia Clanfield lay, was established before the late 12th century, presumably by a lord of Clanfield manor [...] In the early 14th century it was dedicated to St John the Baptist, [...] but probably by the late 15th century and certainly by 1506 its dedication was to St Stephen the Martyr [...] The church had baptismal rights probably from its foundation and certainly by the 15th century, the date of the existing font [...] The font, which has quatrefoils on each face, was provided about that time, though its wooden cover was given in 1913”; this same source, in footnote 91 refers to an illustration of it: " Illust. in Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. a 66, no. 171; for cover, O.R.O., PAR 67/2/A 1/1". [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the original church] [source: VCH: www.englandpast.net/oxon/main.html].