Nuneham Courtenay / Neuham / Nevham / Newenham

There is an entry for Nuneham [Courtenay] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5599/nuneham-courtenay/] [accessed 29 November 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "According to tradition Nuneham church belonged to Abingdon Abbey before the Danish invasions of the 10th century and was then lost with many other possessions. [...] Nuneham Courtenay has had three parish churches, each on a different site and dedicated to All Saints'—a medieval, an 18th-century, and a 19thcentury one. [...] The medieval church was [...] declared in 1762 that 'it was in a ruinous state' and that it was 'extremely damp and unwholesome' [...] pulled down and its monuments taken away [...] The medieval churchyard was destroyed like its church. [...] A new font of stone was provided in 1843 [...] When the third parish church was built in 1880, the 18th-century church was refurnished for use as a private chapel. An altar and walnut stalls of carved wood of Italian workmanship were introduced: also an elaborate wooden cover to the font." The VCH (ibid.) further notes that a report in the 18th century the lack of a font in the church, which indicates tha the medieval one had already disappeared by then. The Victorian font is noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. 1843, with an Italian Baroque cover, richly carved, and surmounted by a figure of St. John." The font itself is a round moulded affair of Victorian manufacture topped by an ornate Italian cover. [NB: it is said locally that the font was made to accommodate the cover -- we have no information on the medieval font].