Little Munden / Mundane / Munden Frevill / Munden Parva / Mundene

There are two entries for [Great and Little] Munden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/great-and-little-munden/] [accessed 1 March 2015], one of which, in the lordship and tenancy of Walter of Flanders, mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Although the original 11th-century church has been almost wholly obscured by later alterations and additions, it seems certain that in the latter half of that century it consisted of a chancel, nave and north aisle, with an arcade of three bays. The 14th-century alterations consisted of building the western portion of the present north chapel about 1340, and about 1360 replacing the two eastern bays of the nave arcade by those now in existence [...] In the 15th century [...] the west tower was built. In the 19th century the church was restored"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL3345121887] (1967) mentions no font in this church but reports a nave and chancel originally of the 11th century. The present font consists of an octagonal basin with carved panels that overhang onto the stem of the base, also octagonal and carved, on a moulded lower base of the same shape. Plain and flat octagonal wooden cover with metal ring handle; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].