Worminghall / Wermelle / Wormehale / Wormenhall / Worminghale / Wornall / Wrmehale

There is an entry for Worminghall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6408/worminghall/] [accessed 6 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes that the church building was "partly rebuilt in in 1847"; the font is "plain and cup-shaped". The RCHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912) reports a font, bowl on stem, possibly 15th-century. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "Worminghall Church is mentioned about 1158 in a general confirmatory charter of Pope Adrian IV to St. Frideswide's Priory [...] and in a bull issued later in the century by Pope Alexander III in favour of this priory. [...] The nave is probably of the latter half of the 12th century [...] The cylindrical font is possibly of the 13th century." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "Sited in the centre of the nave, just W of the lateral doorways. It consists of a plain tapered tub-shaped bowl, chamfered on its upper and lower rims, standing on a cylindrical stem of ashlar blocks with a chamfered drum base extended by a rectangular block at the W to form a step. The bowl is lined with lead and has inserted rim repairs at the SW, NW, NE and SE. [...] The narrowness of the chancel arch and the form of its capitals and bases suggests a date around 1100. The S doorway is rather later and more accomplished, and is likely to date from c.1170. The font could belong to either campaign: its simple shape suggests the earlier date whereas its chamfers point to the later one, although it is hard to believe that it is by the workshop that carved the S doorway."