Cottisford / Cotesforde

There is an entry for Cottisford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5831/cottisford/] [accessed 6 December 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "Before 1081 Hugh de Grantmesnil had given the church with the tithes and a hide of land to the abbey of St. Évroul in Normandy [...] In 1167 St. Évroul transferred its Cottisford property to the Norman abbey of Bec [...] The church of St. Mary is a small building dating from the 13th century. It was described in the early 19th century as a 'low mean structure consisting of a tower covered with slate, a nave and chancel'. When Rawlinson visited the church in 1718, he found it very much out of repair and 'very nastily kept by reason of holes and a pigeon house at the west end of it.' [...] restoration was carried out in 1861 by Charles Buckeridge [...] The font was given in 1861 by John Mansfield of Hethe" [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].