Heston

No individual entry found for Heston in the Domesday survey. Both font and cover at Heston's church are noted in Lysons (1795): "The font is octagonal, and has a Gothic canopy." The National Gazetteer of 1868 mentions "an octagonal font". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 3, 1962) notes: "The original relationship between the churches of Isleworth, Heston, Twickenham, and Hampton is not known. A priest at Isleworth, of which Heston and Twickenham were then part, was mentioned in Domesday Book, but there is no reference to one at Hampton [...] The church of ST. LEONARD, Heston, had a vicar by 1310. [...] In 1865 Heston church consisted of an aisled nave, chancel, north and south chapels, west tower, west and south porches, and a north porch then used as a vestry. There was apparently a Norman arch in the chancel and other parts of the building dated from the 13th century, but most of it seems to have been of the late 15th century. [...] In In 1865 the building was [...] rebuilt [...] The font-cover is 16th-century, though much restored", without mention of the font itself. The same occurs in Pevsner (1951): "gem of a font cover of c. 1500, octagonal, oak, of cupola shape with a finial at the top and flowing blind tracery in the panels. Unfortunately this piece [...] is much restored."