Addington / Eddintone / Edintona / Edintone

There are three entries for Addington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7428/addington/] [accessed 6 January 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) informs that the church "was rebuilt in 1858 (except the tower, the piers and arches of the nave, and the chancel arch) [...] the font is of Yorkshire stone, and rests upon four clustered pillars" [describing the modern font]. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church of Addington was granted to the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem by the lord of the manor before 1220 [...] A 12th-century capital and shaft now preserved in the vestry suggests that there was a church here at that date probably consisting of a chancel and nave only. In the 14th century the aisles were thrown out and the tower built. About 1490 the tower was restored. In 1858 the chancel and aisles with the porch were rebuilt and the vestry added. [...] The furniture is all modern." Pevsner & Williamson (1994) report: "Font. Circular. No doubt by Street." The Winslow Benefice refers to the local guidebook 'The Story of the Church in Addington' written by local author David Critchley in 2000 with information to the installation of a new font in the mid-19th century restoration of the church, but does not give details of the fate of the earlier font here; it does however an episcopal survey of 1637 which recommended a new cover for the font, as well as an earlier bequest in 1538 of "a bushel of barley to pay for a new font cloth". [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].