Kensworth / Canesworda / Canesworde / Ikenesworth / Kenesburda / Kenisworye / Keynesworth / Kneysworth

There is antry for Kensworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0319/kensworth/] [accessed 14 September 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The west tower is an addition of the fifteenth century, and the chancel has been lengthened some 10 ft. in the same century, but with these exceptions and certain alterations to the windows, &c., the main structure remains as it was first built, somewhere about the year 1100 […] The church of Kensworth was granted to the dean and canons of London by Walter bishop of Lincoln in 1183–4 […] The font stands at the north-west of the nave, having formerly stood in the middle in front of the west doorway. It has a round bowl on a round stem with a central ring and a plain base, and though ancient is hard to date, perhaps belonging to the fifteenth century. It has a turned wooden cover with a finial, of no great age."