Chalfont St. Peter / Celfunde / Chalfont Saint Peter / Chalfund Sancti Petri / Chaufunte St. Peter

There is an entry for Chalfont [St Peter] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0091/chalfont-st-peter/] [accessed 27 October 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1847) and Sheahan (1862) report a "plain and very ancient" font in this church. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The church of Chalfont St. Peter was held by the Turvilles and is mentioned first in 1195 [...] The old church of St. Peter collapsed in 1708, and was re-erected in brick in 1714 [...] About 1860 the chancel was again rebuilt"; the VCH entry does not mention a font in it. E. Clive Rouse [www.bucksas.org.uk/rob/rob_12_2_60.pdf] [accessed 27 October 2015] wites: "It is curious that not more of the old material was used, in order to lessen the cost of the re-building. There must have been a great mass vailable. No doubt much was used in the foundations; and some probably found its way into houses in the district, or was employed as road metal. Sheahan, on p. 829 of his book already quoted, says: " The font is plain and very ancient” The prese nt font is palpably XIXth cent., so it looks as if the old one had been comparatively recently discarded. I can find no record of it. The font at Hedgerley has survived two re-buildings of the Church."