Great Hampden / Hamdena / Hampden Magna / Magna Hamdene

There is an entry for [Great and Little] Hampden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-hampden/] [accessed 24 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font is noted in Sheahan (1862): "The font is circular, with a border of roses on its brim". Described in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908): "Previous to the 14th century the church appears to have consisted of an aiseless nave and a chancel of the same size as at present, or nearly so. Aisles were added to the nave in the 14th century, between 1325 and 1350, the north aisle being probably the first to be built. If they had predecessors no trace of them is now visible. [...] The font, in the north aisle, is circular and of 13th-century date with a circular moulded stem and cup-shaped fluted bowl, with a band of ornament round the upper edge. It belongs to a type developed from the local 12th-century form." Described and illustrated in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "Font: [...] cup-shaped bowl, with shallow flutings, at the top band of ornament with square flowers, stem with two bands of cable moulding between them enriched with pattern of interlacing bands of pellet ornament, moulded base, probably late 13th-century." Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Of cup shape. A Norman band at the foot, the top frieze C14 or C15." The basin is roughly hemispheric in shape, decorated around the round upper area with a band of square flowers between parallel mouldings; the basin becomes octagonal below that band, the arrises well marked, and has a scallop at the top of each side, just below the upper band; the base is round and moulded, with a large roll moulding of trellised bead-ribbon pattern sandwiched between two smaller mouldings of rope motif; the lower end of the base is round and splays out to another roll moulding; raised on a quadrangular plinth that appears modern. Round and flat wooden cover. The RCAHM (ibid.) reports also a 15th- or 16th-century stoup, in the porch, east of the south doorway, "with nroken basin".