Fleet Marston / Marston Fleet / Merstone / Flettemerstone

There is an entry for [Fleet] Marston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7715/fleet-marston/] [accessed 4 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font is ancient, columnar, and plain." In Sheahan (1862): "The font is ancient, plain, and circular". Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "Font: roughly made, uneven bowl with tapering sides and lower edge roll, plain cylindrical stem, probably 13th-century, re-cut." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church seems to have been considerably altered during the 14th century, and the earliest existing details are of that period, but traces of two small windows in the chancel, now blocked, indicate that the fabric was built at an earlier date. The church was restored in 1868–9 [...] The font, which probably dates from the 13th century, though since retooled, has a rough tapering bowl with an edge-roll at the bottom, and a plain round stem." The bucket-shaped basin is very badly damaged at the upper rim, with much of it now missing.