Tonge / Tangas / Thwang / Tong

There is an entry for Tonge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ9364/tonge/] [accessed 2 May 2015], and it mentions a church in it. Halsted (1798) writes: "William the Conqueror, on his obtaining the crown, [...] gave both castle and manor to his half-brother Odo, bishop of Baieux, among other great possessions; accordingly it is thus described in the book of Domesday, under the general title of the bishop's lands: The same Hugo (de Port) holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Tangas. It was taxed at two sulings. The arable land is two carucates. In demesne there are two, and five villeins with one carucate. There is a church, and four servants, and one mill of eight shillings. Wood for the pannage of four hogs. [...] There is no village, the church stands about a mile northward from the road [...] The church, which is dedicated to St. Giles, consists of one large and two narrow side isles, and has a tower steeple on the south side, in which are three bells." Bond (1908) writes of as one of several stoups (?) in Kent "close to the western side of one of the western piers; and just above the rim of the font, a deep, spherical triangle, or other shape is worked in the pier at Tonge, Hucking and Sturry." Glynne (1877) does not mention the stoup, but describes the font: "The font has a circular bowl, on octagonal stem -- seems new". [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church]