Ravenstone nr. Newport Pagnell / Raunston / Raveneston / Ravenstione / Ravenston / Rowenstone

There is an entry for this Ravenstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8550/ravenstone/] [accessed 24 February 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) writes: "an ancient edifice [...] built probably in the 12th century [...] very Early English [...] The font is a large cylindrical basin, externaly ornamented with a series of rude arches having trefoil heads". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "Some herring-bone rubble in the west wall of the nave indicates the former existence of an 11th-century church [...] The early 13th-century font has a tapering circular bowl carved with trefoiled arcading having quatrefoils in the spandrels; the plain circular base has four volute-like reeded projections near the top, probably intended for foliage. The oak cover is a tall plain pyramid with turned top, and dates from the 17th century."