Peasemore / Pasemere / Pasmere / Paximere / Peasemore / Peasmoore / Peasmore / Pesemere / Pesmere / Pesimare / Peysmer / Praxemere

There are three entries for Paesemore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4577/peasemore/] [accessed 12 May 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "Peasemore was originally part of the parish of Chieveley, and between 1078 and 1097 Richard de Peasemore, who held the main manor, built a chapel with a cemetery, which was dedicated by Osmund Bishop of Salisbury. In 1104–5 it would seem that Richard desired that this should be a parish church, and he refused to pay his dues to the church of Chieveley. He was censured by the abbot, but appears to have had his way, and Peasemore has since that date been a parish [...] The church of St. Barnabas was rebuilt in 1842"; the register of baptisms starts in 1538. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].