Little Gransden / Grantandene / Grantesdene / Grantedene

There is an entry for [Little] Gransden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2755/little-gransden/] [accessed 12 May 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The RCHM (1968) notes: "octagonal limestone bowl, clunch stem with moulded necking and base, 13th-century." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "A priest of 'Grantandene' is first recorded c. 1183, witnessing a grant of land in Gamlingay. [...] The church was in the 13th century, as it has remained, a rectory, in the patronage of the bishop of Ely [...] Fragments of Romanesque carving in the south wall may come from an earlier church, (fn. 275) but the core of the existing building was put up in the 13th century, when it included the chancel, nave, aisles, and a south porch"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain tapering sides and moulded underbowl, re-tooled; the basin well is lead-lined, the lining modern; there is damage to the mouldings of the underbowl; the base, consisting of a plain octagonal stem and an octagonal lower base, may be Perpendicular. Modern wooden cover, octagonal and flat with metal ornamentation. The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone.