Yelford / Aieleforde / Celford

There is an entry for Yelford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3604/yelford/] [accessed 11 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "the font cup-shaped, panelled". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal, c.1500, with plain shields on each face." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 13, 1996) notes: "Masonry of the 12th century or earlier re-used in the church porch may be from the chapel in existence at Yelford by 1221. [...] In the later 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors [...] and the living remained a rectory until 1976 [...] The windows, font, piscina, south door, and carved wooden screen are all of c. 1500". The font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with large blank shields in the panels formed by the upper and lower mouldings and yhose at the angles; octagonal stem with mouldings at each end; and splaying lower base, also octagonal; the plinth ia octagonal as well; the basin is damaged with diagonal crack that appears to go through the whole volume; it has been repaired.