Preston Bisset / Preston Bisset / Preston Byset / Prestona / Prestone [Domesday]

There is an entry for this Preston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP6529/preston-bissett/] [accessed 19 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. The present font here is noted in Sheahan (1862): "The font is an octagon, and plain, supported by a short octagonal pedestal. The Victoria County History (Buckinghamshire, vol. 4, 1927) notes on this church: "probably on the site of an early 12th-century church, fragments of which, including round window heads and pillar capitals, were found during a modern restoration, and have been built into the east wall of the north aisle [...] The earliest patron of whom mention has been found is Henry de Belesby, who in 1252 acknowledged the services due from his tenements in Cowley to Henry de Bayworth [...] He presented to the church in 1262 [...] The font dates from the 15th century and has an octagonal bowl and stem, and a square base with broached stops." The tapering octagonal basin is actually moulded on its lower end and underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal base that becomes square at the lower end. [see a current illustration of this font in Flickr [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkboy1/6086022194/] [accessed 19 July 2014]