Great Eversden / Aueresdone / Auresdone / Euresdone

There are four entries for [Great and Little] Eversden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-eversden/] [accessed 28 April 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) notes: "The font is rude octagonal, with a remarkably shallow basin: it has the appearance of great antiquity, but the stem and bowl are covered with plaister [sic]". The RCHM (1968) does not mention a font in this church. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "There was evidently a church, perhaps serving both Great and Little Eversden, by 1092, for by then Picot the sheriff had granted twothirds of the tithes of Eversden to his foundation of Barnwell Priory [...] Nothing of the 12th-century church has remained visible. The earliest feature is a late-14thcentury window reset in the tower, apparently at the rebuilding for which indulgences were granted in 1466 following a fire when the church and its belltower were struck by lightning"; no font at Great Eversden St Mary's is mentioned in the VCH entry.