Todenham / Teodeham / Toteham [Domesday]

There is an entry for Todenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2436/todenham/] [accessed 189 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The earliest known documentary evidence for Todenham church is a papal confirmation of the church to Westminster Abbey in 1157. [...] The church of St. Thomas of Canterbury was apparently so named before the Reformation, [...] and was known by this name from the early 18th century. [...] The 13th-century font has a plain circular bowl and octagonal pedestal. It was removed from the church at one time, and the names of the churchwardens who restored it to use in 1773 are carved on the bowl." In Verey & Brook (1999-2002) : "The font in the church is 13th Century and consists of a circular bowl with a roll moulding at the top and a roll with a holow chamfer at the bottom. The pedestal is an octagonal stem, probably 15th Century."] Baptismal font of a composite nature consisting of a cylindrical basin with a moulding at the upper rim and another at the lower; rounded underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with splaying lower base. Much-weathered inscription on the sides of the basin [cf. VCH supra]. A recent photograph of this font by Oxford Church Illustrations in Flickr [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/216696548/] [accessed 9 September 2007].