Steeple Morden / Mordune

There are three entries for [Steeple] Morden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2842/steeple-morden/] [accessed 8 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL2857342467] (1967) notes: "Font, late C13 or early C14." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "In 1185 Bishop Richard of Ilchester agreed to grant the church to the Knights Hospitaller in exchange for their claim to St. Cross hospital, Winchester [...] but the deal fell through, and when he died in 1188 the advowson was in his hands. [...] rebuilding in the early 13th century, which by 1242 had given the village the name Steeple Morden [...] the font 15th-century". The baptismal font in the parish church of Steeple Morden appears to have been drastically re-tooled, which makes it difficult to assign a date to; it has the general shape of the fonts of the Perpendicular period, but it is also possible that it is a modern font re-tooled as well; it consistis of an octagonal basin of plain vertical sides and a graded underbowl chamfer, raised on an octagonal pedestal base plain except for a set of similar graded mouldings on the lower base; no plinth, but there is a 'priest's stone'; there has been some repair work done to the upper side of the basin; the inner well of the basin is round and lead-lined, the central drian hole now plugged; the wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid that appears modern.