Digswell / Dicheleswell / Dichellesuuelle / Digeneswell / Diggeswell / Digoneswell / Dikkeswell / Dikneswell / Dixwell

There are two entries for Digswell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2314/digswell/] [accessed 12 October 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. An early baptismal font here is reported in Gough (1792), "rudely ornamented with scroll work." A font at Digswell is notted in Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (vol. X, p. 188). Pollard (1907) reports a Norman font at Digswell. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church was given to the abbey of Walden, in Essex, by Geoffrey de Mandeville [+1144], first Earl of Essex, the founder of that monastery […] and lord of the manor of Digswell. […] The original church, probably consisting of a chancel and nave, was built in the 12th century, and to that date the present chancel and nave may probably be referred"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. A picture of the font here is listed in 'PARISHES OF COTTERED, DATCHWORTH AND DIGSWELL' [ref.: D/EGr/27], The William Blyth Gerish Collection, held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives [digital image of the picture not available at present].