Great Gransden / Granceden / Grandesden / Gransden / Grantandene / Grantedene / Grantendene/ Grantesden / Grantisden / Grauntedene / Magna Granteden

The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The advowson of the church of Great Gransden seems to have been granted with the manor [...] to Robert, Earl of Gloucester [ca. 1090-1147] [...] Although mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086) there are no remains of early date existing, and, with the exception of the tower, which is of the late 14th century, the whole church was rebuilt and widened to the south in the 15th century [...] The church was restored in 1873 [...] The font has a plain octagonal bowl of 15th-century date resting on a modern stem and base." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain tapering sides and moulded underbowl; appears to have been re-tooled [the upper rim has repairs to it consistent with the sort of damage resulting from the removal of the staples of an earlier cover]; the basin well is lead-lined, the lining modern; the base, consisting of a plain octagonal stem and a square splaying lower base with a flap motif, appears modern. Modern wooden cover, octagonal with crenellated crown rim and knob finial. The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth.