Tangley / Tangele / Tangelea / Tangelegh / Tangelie / Tankley

No individual entry found for Tangley in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) write: "curious tub-shaped leaden bowl [...] of Jacobean date; it is ornamented with roses, crowned thistles, and fleur-de-lis". Listed in Bond (1908) simply as an ornamented lead baptismal font. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "In the 12th century there was a building on this site consisting of a nave, which probably did not extend as far westwards as the present one, but had an apse to the east as at present, the foundations having been discovered when the present apse was built [...] reconstructed in 1872, when nearly the whole of the church was rebuilt and the vestry and south porch were added. [...] The west tower was added in 1898. [...] There is a circular lead early 17th-century font, enriched with three fleurs de lis, two Tudor roses, and two crowned thistles." The outer surface of the basin is cover in innumerable incised and scratched markings, dates, etc. The lead basin is raised on a wooden base of roughly the same shape and volume. The wooden cover has four ribs around a central pivot on a flat round platform [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]