Buckingham / Bochingheham

There are thirteen entries for Buckingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6934/buckingham/] [accessed 2 December 2015], bone of which mention cleric or church in it [NB: the VCH [cf. infra] mentions a church held by Wulfwig, bishop of Dorchester, and one of the entries in Domesday was under the Wulfwy's [aka Wulfwig] lordship in 1066, but the Domesday text does not mention a cleric or church in it]. Sheahan (1862) describes the now disappeared church as "a handsome cruciform structure of the 13th century", but he has no information on its font; Sheahan (ibid.) reports the modern font in the later church: "The font, of blue Derbyshire marble, oval shape, was presented to the church by the Rev. Henry Crowe, Vicar, in 1824." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "Under Edward the Confessor Buckingham Church was held by Wulfwig Bishop of Dorchester, whose successor, Bishop Remigius, held at Domesday. [...] Together with King's Sutton and Horley it was appropriated as a prebend to Lincoln about the year 1090 [...] In 1776 the tower of the old church in Prebend End, which Willis had done much to preserve, fell, and, as the whole building was in a dilapidated state, it was pulled down and the materials were re-used to build the present church, which was added to and completely remodelled by Sir Gilbert G. Scott during the last half of the 19th century." The present baptismal font is probably of that date: a square table-top type of basin raised on five supports. [NB: the old church was located on Preben End, but we have no information on its font].