Hanslope / Anslepe / Anslope / Hameslepe / Hammescle / Hamslape / Hanslap / Hanslape / Hanslepe / Hanslopp

There is and entry for Hanslope [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8046/hanslope/] [accessed 18 February 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes: "Church [...] erected by William Mauduit, who died in 1257 [...] the font is small and plain". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) informs: "Hanslope was originally a chapelry [...] of Castle Thorpe, but by a licence granted by Bishop Grosteste (1235–53) it became the parish church in the place of the old mother church, which was thereupon annexed to it as a chapel. [...] The fine chancel dates from about 1160; the plan and dimensions of a nave of the same period are doubtless preserved in the existing nave, but no detail of an earlier date than the late 15th century now survives." The Milton Keynes Heritage Association web site [http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/hdhs/churchtour/frameset.html] [accessed 12 April 2009] illustrates the current font and informs it was moved to its present location near the south entrance from an earlier location in the centre of the nave, at the west end; this font consists of a cylindrical basin with a blind trefoil arcade, raised on a cluster of columns; the font is probably 19th-century; the wooden cover is dome-shaped and probably Victorian as well. [NB: the VCH does not mention a font in this church; we have no information on the earliear font(s) of this church] [cf. Index entry for Chapel Thorpe for the font in that church].