Hardwick nr. Bicester / Hardewich

There is an entry for this Hardwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5729/hardwick/] [accessed 12 December 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "A grant was made of Hardwick tithes in the late 11th century (see below), but as Hardwick was a chapelry of Stoke Lyne in the mid-12th century, the grant is not certain evidence for the existence of a church other than that of Stoke Lyne. Hardwick chapel is first mentioned in the mid-12th century, when it was granted with Stoke Lyne by Walter Giffard to Notley Abbey. [...] This grant does not seem to have taken effect, and by 1249 or 1250 when the lord of the manor, William d'Aundeley, presented, Hardwick was a separate church. [...] A late 12th- or early 13th-century doorway forms the main (south) entrance to the church and an ancient stoup, discovered built into some masonry, has been placed inside it." The VCH further notes that a new font was installed in the 1878-1879 re-building of the church, a "font (from Fringford church)". Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) inform that this was a small Decorated church "almost entirely rebuilt in 1878". [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].