Elsenham No. 1 / Alsenham

The Parish website [http://www.heuchurch.f9.co.uk/e_building.htm] [accessed 22 June 2010] notes: "The earliest record we have of Elsenham Church occurs in 1070 A.D., when a certain John, nephew of Waleran, son of Ralph, gave it as an endowment to the abbey of St. Stephen, at Caen in Normandy. Towards the end of the twelfth century, another document records the gift of the church by Beatrice, Lady Say, to the Benedictine Priory of Walden [...] There have been a number of fonts in the church down the years, the current one being a modern wooden one." [NB: we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church].