East Garston No. 1 / Argaston / Esegareston / Esegarestun / Esgar / Esgarston / Estgarston / Hesegerton

There is an entry for East Garston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3676/east-garston/] [accessed 27 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "A charter of Maurice de London [i.e., Maurice de Londres, ca. 1100?] granted the church of East Garston to the priory founded by him at Ewenny. [...] The building was modernized in 1876, when the chancel was pulled down and rebuilt and other work done. That there was a church here at the end of the 12th century is proved by the north and south doorways. [...] The font is modern; a small 17th-century font stands in the chapel." The present font is modern, probably of the date of the renovation of the church in the 19th-century [cf. supra]. The holy-water stoup could date to the period of the south doorway, the late-12th century, according to the VCH [cf. supra], or, the early-13th century, according to the CRSBI (2015) [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].