Lower Heyford / Esforde / Hesford / Heyford-at-Bridge / Heyford Bridge

There are three entries for [Lower and Upper] Heyford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/lower-and-upper-heyford/] [accessed 12 December 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 reports a "font dated 1662" [NB: the church itself goes back to the Early English period according to Kelly's (ibid.)] The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The church was dedicated in the mid11th century by Wulfwig, Bishop of Dorchester (1053–67) [...] During most of the Middle Ages the living was divided into two parts and there were two rectors. This arrangement probably began in the 12th century, when Peter de la Mare and his son Robert between the years 1168 and 1173 granted half the church to Eynsham Abbey [...] Eynsham held the advowson of its rectory until the 15th century, when the two rectories were united [...] The only remains of 13th-century work are the built-up responds of a former south arcade [...] The octagonal font is inscribed 1662, although the base is probably medieval". The VCH refers to a "drawing by J. Buckler in MS. Top. Oxon. a 67, f. 323." [i.e., the collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford]. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974), however, note: "Font. Octagonal, medieval, but dated 1662, when it was restored."