Kingsey / Eie / Kingehesey / Kingesey / Kingeshay / Kingesie

There is an entry for Kingsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7406/kingsey/] [accessed 4 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in i it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font is a small marble bason, supported by pedestal." Sheahan (1862) mentions that font and adds: "The Church (St. Nicholas) is a small plain structure, rebuilt about 1800, on the site of the old fabric" The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The advowson of Kingsey Church was alienated from the manor and given to Rochester Priory by Gilbert de Bolebec in the time of Henry III [i.e., 1216-1272]", with no reference at all to the earlier church fabric: "The church [...] is a modern building in the style of the 15th century, erected in 1892–3, to replace a late 18th-century church, much of the old material being re-used." The VCH (ibid.) does not mention any font in the modern church. The present font, an octagonal basin raised on coloured marble colonnettes, is modern and must have replaced the one noted in Lipscomb [cf. supra] in the late-19th century re-building of this church. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church].