Kirtlington / Certelintone / Chertelintone / Cortelintone

There are four entries for Kirtlington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5019/kirtlington/] [accessed 12 July 2016], none of which mentions a church in it; one part of the four had a priest as lord and tenent in chief in 1086, so there may have been a church here at the time. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "There can be little doubt that there was a Saxon church at Kirtlington, which was an important royal manor, but the earliest indication of its existence comes from Domesday Book." [...] The tympanum now over the vestry doorway is early 12th century [...] Between 1852 and 1854 the church was restored [...] The work included the building of the present tower (architect Benjamin Ferrey), the erection of internal and external buttresses to support the wall of the north aisle, the removal of the gallery and the old square pews, paving with Minton tiles, and the installation of a new font." [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the early church here].