Northchurch / Berkhampstead St. Mary / Berkhamstead St. Mary / Northcherche / North Berkhampstead

No entry for Northchurch found in the Domesday survey, but the foundations of the church here may be pre-Conquest. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "It is probable that before the church of St. Peter in Great Berkhampstead was built, the church of St. Mary, Northchurch, was the parish church of Berkhampstead, which was then included in the parish of Northchurch. […]] The church od St. Mary […] has undergone so much repair and refacing that its earlier history is a matter of speculation only. The plan of the chancel belongs to the first quarter of the thirteenth century, and a window of that date remains at the east end of the north wall. The nave has no detail older than the middle of the same century, but its plan is almost certainly earlier […] The font is octagonal with a plain bowl, which is ancient, and a modern moulded base." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: plain octagonal bowl, probably 15th-century; base modern." No font listed for this church in Tompkins (1922) or in Pevsner & Cherry (1977).