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There is an entry for [High] Wycombe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU8693/high-wycombe/] [accessed 26 October 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes: "The font is octagonal and plain". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "It has been suggested that the church of Wycombe was that erected by a wealthy townsman and consecrated by Bishop Wulfstan between 1072 and 1092. [...] The advowson must have come into the hands of the Crown, and was granted to Godstow Abbey by Henry II, [...] the gift being confirmed by Richard I in 1189 [...] and Henry III in 1254. [...] The present plan has probably been developed from that of a 12th-century cruciform church with a central tower [...] The church was restored internally by G. E. Street in 1873–5, and the exterior was extensively repaired, much of the old masonry being renewed, in 1887–9 under the supervision of Mr. A. M. Mowbray and Mr. J. Oldrid Scott"; the VCH does not mention the font, but the plan showing the church interior in the VCH entry shows a font located just east of the tower entrance. No font is mentioned in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ), which does report a holy-water stoup, east of the south doorway, in the form of "remains of moulded jamb and three-centred arch in square head, probably early 16th-century" [NB: the church here is documented by 1086, but we have no information on its medieval font]. Sheahan (ibid.) notes that the hamlets of Hazlemere, Tylers Green and Wycombe Marsh, all have churches and fonts of the 19th century.