Mottisfont No. 2 / Modesfunte / Mortelhunte / Mortesfunde / Motes Founton / Motesfonte / Motesfunda / Motsone / Motte Fount / Mottesfont / Mottesfount / Mottson

There are two entries for Mottisfont [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3226/mottisfont/] [accessed 13 September 2018], one of which reports seven churches in it [NB: cf. VCH info below identifying six of them as ' dependent chapelries' of Mottisfont church]. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period made of Purbeck marble in this church. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The advowson of the church of Mottisfont with the dependent chapelries of Broughton, Pittleworth, East Dean, East and West Tytherley and Lockerley [...] [fn96 quotes Dugdale, Mon viii, 1177: "The chapelries of Lockerley and East Dean continued to be dependent on the parish of Mottisfont until 1884 (Order in Council, Dec. 1884). For a long time pensions from the churches of Broughton and East and West Tytherley were paid to the treasurer of York Cathedral, the patron of Mottisfont"] [...] The greater part of the [present] church belongs to the first half of the 12th century, and, except for the introduction of a few windows, it appears to have remained unaltered until the 15th century [...] The font has a Purbeck marble bowl, much retooled, but perhaps of the 12th century, on a modern stem and base." Holmes ([1922]) writes: "The square font of Purbeck marble is of the same date as the Norman arch in the chancel". The entry for this church in Hisytoric England [Listing NGR: SU3201227629 ] reports a " Font in NW C12 square bowl on C19 base." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "much defaced bowl; support modern" [source given: VCH, 4, 1911].