Pertenhall / Partenhale / Pertenhale

There is an entry for Pertenhall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0865/pertenhall/ [accessed 15 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of octagonal fonts made mostly of Totternhoe stone, the bain raised on a cluster of pillars. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "In the 12th century the church seems to have consisted of nave and chancel only, to which a north aisle—narrower than the present one—was added about the year 1190, when the present arcade was built. [...] The font is octagonal, on a central and four outer shafts, the capital of one of which has 13th-century foliage. By a curious trick of varying the angles of the sides of the bowl each side is wedge-shaped, wider alternately at top and bottom." Blaydes' Bedfordshire Notes and Queries (vol. 3, 1893: 319) reports "a curious old scrap relating to this parish [Pertenhall]. It appears to be the last page out of some old Church Account Book"; it consists mainly of an account of furnishings and general objects in the church; it does not mention the font but it accounst for "a cover for the Font", but gives no details of it.