Linkenholt / Lickenholt / Linchehore / Linchehou / Linkeholth / Lycknol / Lyncknolt / Lyncoholt / Lynkeholt / Lynkynholt / Nyncknoll

There is an entry for Linkenholt [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3658/linkenholt/] [accessed 23 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The font is drum-shaped. [NB: C&H use the form "Lickenholt"]. The Victoria County History (Hamshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There was no church in the parish at the time of the Domesday Survey, [...] nor is there any mention of one in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas (1291). The first proof of the existence of one is during the episcopacy of John Stratford, Bishop of Winchester (1323–33) [...] The church was not assessed in the 14th century propter exilitatem. [...] The church was rebuilt in 1871; the only parts of the former structure which were retained are the south doorway, a small round-headed window and the bowl of the font; all date from the 12th century. The former building stood behind the manor-house in another part of the village. [...] The font has a tapering round bowl, the top edge carved with a cable moulding between bands of saw tooth and zigzag ornament. The stem is modern." The information in the VCH (ibid.) would suggest that the church was built between 1086 and the early-13th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP3521952774] reports "a Norman font (being a tapered drum with a shallow chevron ornament at the top)" in this church.