Harefield / Herefelle

There is an entry for Harefield [and Harefield South] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/harefield-and-harefield-south/] [accessed 7 June 2019]; it reports a priest and "0.25 church lands" but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 3, 1962) notes: "There was a priest in the manor of Harefield in 1086, [...] but nothing further is known concerning the church until the late 12th century. At that time Beatrice de Bollers, and her son, Geoffrey son of Baldwin, who seem to have owned Harefield manor, [...] gave the advowson to the Knights Hospitallers. [...] The oldest visible feature of the church is a blocked lancet window in the chancel which dates from the early 13th century, but the west wall of the nave may be of 12thcentury origin. [...] fittings of the church are noteworthy. [...] In the late 19th century it was said that the font had been used as a water trough in the vicarage garden for about 50 years, but had been restored 'a few years ago' [the VCH footnote reads: "M.R.O., PR. 17/19e. This is an unidentified newspaper cutting."] [NB: the discarded and restored font referred to in the VCH entry appears to refer to a modern font, now back in inside the church -- we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].