Barford St. Michael / Bereford / Great Barford

There are two entries for Barford [St Michael] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4332/barford-st-michael/] [accessed 15 November 2017], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 reports a Norman font here. Plain bucket-shaped basin mounted on a circular platform made up of several blocks; the upper side of the basin shows damage consistant with the forceful removal of the old cover staple; conical/pyramidal wooden cover, the lower volume polygonal with panels adorned with cross or star motifs, the cone/pyramid proper with protruding arrises. Kelly's Directory (ibid.) notes that part of the church is dated to the 12th century, the period to which the font probably belongs. Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 11, 1983) notes: "The church was probably given to Chacombe priory by Hugh of Chacombe between 1163 and 1176, although the charter recording the gift is somewhat later [...] In the 12th century the church seems to have comprised only a chancel and short nave, with the tower, perhaps because of the nature of the site, built in an unusual position on the south side of the chancel; the continuation of the tower's plinth moulding around the west side shows that there was no aisle. The church was distinguished by ornate north and south doorways of c. 1150 [...] The church contains a 12th-century tub font", and has footnote with reference to "Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. a 65, no. 75", a drawing (?) in the Bodleian collections.