Hauxton / Hauochestone / Hauochestun / Havochestun

There are two entries for Hauxton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4352/hauxton/] [accessed 20 June 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) notes: "The font is octagonal, on five shafts", and much in the same terms in Kelly's Directory of the county (1929). Noted in The Ecclesiologist (no. CXLVII, December 1861: 383) as a font of the "First Pointed" [i.e., Early English] period: "It consists simply of the frustrum of an octagonal pyramid with the base upwards, and hollowed out for the basin; it has no moulding or carving, and is now on a modern base." The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 8, 1982) notes: "Both at Hauxton and at Newton churches were established well before 1150. […] Hauxton church, dedicated to St. Edmund, […] may well be of pre-Conquest foundation. […] Probably c. 1100 the monks of Ely had built a church with a round-ended apse, and a short nave reaching not far west of the present north and south doors. […] Perhaps c. 1200 the chancel received a straight east end […] There is a plain, octagonal, 13th-century font." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "an octagonal tapered bowl standing on an impost-like block with a deep groove in the chamfer and a roll edge to the upper face. This in turn stands on five shafts, the outer ones simple cylinders with plain neckings at the top only, and the central one octagonal with an integrated cushion capital." There is a round, flat and plain wooden cover on the font; modern; the upper sides of th basin, however, bear the scars of old cover anchorings, with considerable damage to the upper rim.