Horsenden / Horsedene [Domesday] / Horsedune / Horsendene / Horsendon

There are four entries for Horsenden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7902/horsenden/] [accessed 23 September 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) writes: "The Church (St. Michael) stands near the Manor House, and is a small neat but lofty edifice of stone, with a low embattled tower at the west end, in which hangs a single bell. The old church, when visited by Browne Willis in 1728, consisted of a nave and chancel tiled and a west tower. In 1765, being then represented to be 'decayed, having been erected more than 500 years,' it was pulled down, with the exception of the chancel, and John Grubb Esq., the patron, then re-built the tower at the west end of the chancel, which has from that time served as the parish church." Sheahan (ibid.) reports that the church was re-opened on 29 September 1855 "by the Bishop of Oxford, after the restorations of the fitiings of the interior [...] the baptismal font is of Caen stone finely sculptured." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The advowson of the church has been held by the lords of the manor since 1210, when it passed from John de Horsenden to Robert de Braybrcok. [...] The font is modern, octagonal, and of 15th-century detail." No font is mentioned in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ) [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church]