Puttenham / Puteham / Puttanho / Puttingham / Puttnam

There is an entry for Puttenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8814/puttenham/] [accessed 20 April 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A 1832 drawing of this font by J.C. Buckler is reported at the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies [Ref.: D/Z119/4/470C]. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Puttenham was held by the priors and canons of Canons Ashby [...] until 1309, when they granted it to the bishop of Lincoln. [...] Cussans suggests that the church was probably built by the family of la Zouche, who were liberal benefactors to the priory of Ashby, and bestowed by them upon the priory. [...] No features now existing appear to be older than the fourteenth century, though the small nave with its proportion of two squares suggests an earlier aisleless building, the chancel of which was superseded by that now existing. [...] The font, at the west end of the nave, has a plain circular bowl, stem and base, but has lost its old surface and any definite marks of its age. It has a flat cover with a turned seventeenth-century finial." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: plain circular bowl, no detail; cover 17th-century." The English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: SP8852014927] notes: "Stone font with plain circular bowl, stem and base, medieval re-cut and C17 wooden cover."