Aspley Guise / Aspel / Aspelegise / Aspeleia / Asperele / Aspleia / Aspslea

There is an entry for Aspley [Guise] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9436/aspley-guise/] [accessed 21 September 2015], but it mentions neither ckeric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 2011) notes: "The church and two parts of the tithes of Aspley Guise were granted to Newnham Priory by Simon de Beauchamp, which grant was subsequently confirmed by the Bishop of Lincoln and Henry II" [1154+ ] The [present] church of St. Botolph has been so much altered and repaired in modern times that its architectural history is in large measure uncertain. [...] The font is circular, dating from the 14th century, with shafts at the angles with moulded capitals and bases." Pevsner (1960) mentions a baptismal font, "drum-shaped, with four shafts", perhaps of the 13th century. [NB: we have no information on the font from the 12th-century church].