Somerford Keynes / Sumerford / Sumreford / Svmreford

There is an entry for Somerford [Keynes] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU0195/somerford-keynes/] [accessed 5 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman circular bowl chamfered down to fit a C14 exagonal base, carved with elentary tracery patterns." Baptismal font consisting of a round basin with shallow side but overlong chamfered underbowl, raised on a hexagonal pedestal base that has shallow-relief tracery windows; the lower base consists of three thin volumes, the upper being octagonal, the lower two round; the whole is raised on a polygonal plinth. The cover has a rather simple version of the Jacobean-style four-ribs-around-a-central-pivot design, in metal, on a round wooden platform. The font looks awkward and is likely a composite arrangement [cf. Verey & Brooks notes, above]; the basin could be Norman, but re-cut; the pedestal base has Gothic tracery on it, so it is not likely to be pre-1300; the lower base is totally out of character with anything else. [NB: the original church is said to have been founded in the late 7th century, and there is some evidence of Anglo-Saxon work extant, but we have no information on any earlier fonts of this church]