Wallingford No. 3 / Walenge / Walengeford / Walingeford / Warenge / Warine-ford / Wealinga-ford

There are eight entries for Wallingford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6089/wallingford/] [accessed 4 May 2015], but no mention of cleric or church found in any of them. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "Wallingford seems at one time, perhaps in the 12th century and possibly even later in the 13th century, to have contained fourteen or fifteen churches or chapels. [...] Of these, ten or eleven were parish churches, three were chapels belonging to religious foundations and one was a bridge chapel. [...] The church of St. Peter, near the bridge, [...] may, perhaps, have been founded by Robert Doyley shortly after the Norman Conquest. [...] The present nave and tower were erected in 1769 [...] the font is modern." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SU6093489458] (1949) reports a late-18th century font in this church. The present baptismal font dates from the 1760s re-building; the medieval church had been destroyed in a 1646 siege of the town, during the Civil War. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here, perhaps destroyed in the Civil War].