Cheshunt / Cestrehunt [Domesday] / Chesthunt

There is an entry for Cheshunt [variable spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3502/cheshunt/] [accessed 2 November 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911) reports: "Font: late 12th-century bowl, with trefoiled panels, apparently modern, cut in the sides; stem and base modern." The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Cheshunt appears to have been appendant to the manor of Cheshunt and to have formed part of the earldom of Richmond, as Conan Duke of Britanny [i.e., Conan IV, +1171] granted it to the canons of Fulgeres [...] between 1146 and 1171 [...] It appears from a brass in the church to Nicholas Dixon, rector, that the whole of the church was rebuilt by him between 1418 and 1448, and no structural work of an earlier date now remains. The south chapel, north vestry and south porch are modern, and the church generally was extensively restored during the latter part of the 19th century. [...] The font has a late 12th-century octagonal bowl; on each face are trefoiled panels of a later date or modern; the stem and eight small flanking shafts are modern." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL3491502415] notes: "Built between 1418 and 1448. Restored 1872-3 by J Clarke and 1883-4 by G F Bodley [...] Purbeck marble font of C12: octagonal with recessed trefoil-headed panels." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): "bowl with two trefoil headed panels, which are not original, cut on each face; the supports are modern" [source given: Mr. P.R. Rooke].