Creslow / Cærsehlaw / Carselouwe / Christlow / Cresselai [Domesday] / Cresselowe / Crestlow / Crissellow / Cristlow / Kercelawe / Kerselawe / Kerseloghe / Kyrslowe

There is an entry for Creslow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8121/creslow/] [accessed 16 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1847) records the first rector of the Creslow church, William de Dingel, in 1239, and its last, Thomas Davies, in 1554. Sheahan (1862) suggests a Transition date for the surviving doorway of the remaining building, "the nave of which is now used as a coach-house". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "Adjoining the manor-house on the north-west is the nave of the old parish church [...] It dates probably from the latter part of the 12th century, but was altered in the 15th century. During Elizabeth's reign services ceased to be performed, [...] and in 1786 it was used as a dovecot. [...] Shortly afterwards it was adapted to serve its present purpose as a coach-house by the insertion of partition walls and upper floors, and by the rearrangement of the various openings." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of its baptismal font].