Little Berkhamsted / Berchehamstede

There is an entry for Little Berkhamsted [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2907/little-berkhamsted/] [accessed 2 November 2016], but it mentions no church in it; the Domesday entry shows a priest named Saemer as one of the three lords here in 1066, which may mean that there was a church here before the Conquest. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Hugh de Scales, lord of the manor in the 12th century, gave the church of Little Berkhampstead to the priory of Lewes [...] The church is said to have been rebuilt about 1647 on the site of an older building, but the only remains of that date are parts of the east and west walls, the rest of the church being modern"; there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry, but it gives the date for the first register for baptisms, burials and marriages as starting in 1647. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL2921007886] (1966) reports an octagonal font introduced in the S. Harris' restoration of 1894.