Niton No. 1 / Crab Niton / Crip Niton / Neeton / Neighton / Neuton / Newton Regis / Nyton

There is a multiple-place entry for Niton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ5076/niton/] [accessed 14 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) lists a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Cox (1911): "an early Norman font, with cable moulding round the circular bowl." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "The oldest part [of the church], the nave, may have been part of the original 11th-century structure, but this is difficult to determine, as at the end of the 12th century a north aisle was added and early in the 13th a south aisle, thus obliterating any earlier features [...] The registers are in nine volumes; baptisms and burials begin 1559"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. Noted in Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "Norman, of cauldron type, with a rope moulding at the top." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SZ5052176771] notes: "Parish church. Nave C11, chancel C13 lengthened in C14 when south porch was also built. C15 south chapel, south aisle and tower spire added in C17. North aisle rebuilt in 1864 on the site of C13 north aisle which had been demolished in the C15. [...] Norman font of cauldron shape with rope moulding at the top." [cf. Index entry for Niton No. 2 for a possible second font in this locality]