Barrington / Barenton / Barentone

There are five entries for this Barrington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3949/barrington/] [accessed 16 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) notes: "The font is a square Norman basin, placed on a square stem panelled with Decorated tracery." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists it among a group of early fonts in which angle-shafts ornament the rectangular basin; T-G identifies the base as of a later date. This type of angle-shaft decoration occurs also at Henllan (Cardigan), Tresillian (Cornwall), etc. Kelly's Directory of the county (1929) reads: "The font, a square basin of Norman date, stands on a Decorated base." Noted in the RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968) with date in the 14th century. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain C13 bowl on a Dec[orated] base with rather gross traceried panels." [NB: the RCHM (ibid.) notes: "The Barrington stoup was exceptionally large and elaborate before its mutilation", but does not give a date for it]. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "The benefice of Barrington was originally a rectory, whose advowson belonged to the successive lords of the principal manor [...] In 1217 the rector's income was taxed at £16 a year [...] In the mid 13th century the church consisted of a chancel and a nave with aisles, all recently built but possibly incorporating at the west end some fragments of an earlier structure"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry.