Wotton Underwood / Oltone / Ottone / Woothong / Wooton / Wudotun

There is an entry for Wotton [Underwood] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6816/wotton-underwood/] [accessed 6 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font is of stone, large and ancient, supported by a round column." Sheahan (1862) reports an early font in this church at the time: "the font is large, ancient, and cup-shaped." This font must have been removed (?) in the re-building of this church carried out in 1867, just a few years after Sheahan's visit [cf. infra]. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "A modern doorway to the tower on the west preserves a 12th-century lintel, enriched with diaper ornament, perhaps a relic of an earlier church on this site. [...] The chancel was probably built about 1320, but the whole fabric has been so much restored and enlarged that precise dates cannot be assigned to either chancel or nave [...] it was extensively repaired in 1800 by George Marquess of Buckingham, and again practically rebuilt in 1867" [the VCH does not mention a font in it]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP6883715942] (1967) notes: "circular font on banded stem, possibly medieval but much reworked".