Aston / Aschton / Easttun / Estona / Estone [Domesday] (Herts.)

There is an entry for this Aston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2722/aston/] [accessed 12 October 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church, though there must have been one there. The Victoria County Histtory (Hertfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The invocation of Aston Church seems to have been changed about the end of the 15th century, for in 1430 and apparently in 1490 it is referred to as St. James, […] but in 1505 and after as our Lady. […] The presentation to the church seems to have always belonged to the lord of the manor. It was confirmed to the monastery of Reading by William Earl of Arundel [+1176], Queen Adelaide's husband, […] and by Henry II […] and Edward III. […] The chancel and nave date from about 1230, and probably represent the whole of the original church. It was not until the end of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century that the west tower was added;" no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The present font is modern.