Hanwell nr. Banbury / Hanewese [Domesday] (Oxfordshire)

There is an entry for this Hanewell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4343/hanwell/] [accessed 7 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A Norman font in this church is noted in Beesley's History of Banbury (1841). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 mentions a Norman font in this church. A baptismal font of the Norman period, ornamented with a blind arcade of intersecting arches is identified in "Notes on the History and Architecture of the Parish" by the Rev. Leslie W.A. Ahrendt, Rector of Hanwell (www.st-peter-hanwell.co.uk/History.htm), the text: "The oldest feature of the Church is the Norman font (in the south aisle), which is tub shaped, and decorated with an interlacing arcade of semicircular headed arches. Mr Keyser, in the British Archaeological Society's Journal, refers to this as a relic of the earlier, Norman Church. The list of Rectors of Hanwell does not begin, however, until 1233 A.D." [source: http://www.hanwellvillage.com/church_history.htm#font [accessed 3 February 2009]. Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font is Transition-Norman". In the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 9, 1969): "The only remaining features earlier than 1300 appear to be the font, which is ornamented with intersecting arcading of c. 1200". In Sherwood a& Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with a blank arcade of intersecting arches. Wooden Jacobean cover, four scrolls supporting a ball finial." Noted in the BRSBI (2017): "The only remaining Romanesque feature is the tub font, with intersecting arches and three little heads [...] Located in the S aisle just W of the S door, a tapered limestone font decorated with intersecting blind arcades and three carved heads. The bowl has a roll moulding below and stands on a modern cylindrical base. There is a lead lining and a drainage hole. There is damage to the stone rim to the SW where the lead lining has been bent over the gap, and to the NE there is repaired lock damage. The font bears raised chamfered ridges that form six round-headed arches, intersecting to form twelve pointed ones. To the SW, near the top, are three projecting carved heads: Head 1, left, in the spandrel of the damaged round arch. A rounded head with hair or headwear, with round depressions for one eye, a nose and a mouth. Head 2, in the top of the next pointed arch to the right, a raised oval shape with depressions for two eyes, and a hollowed mouth containing a tongue. Head 3 shares the space to the right of head 2. It is of similar shape, but too worn to describe. [NB: since the church of St. Peter dates back only to the Early English period, ca. 1230, it is believed the font may have belonged to an earlier, late-Norman or Transitional church].