Basing / Basinges / Old Basing

There is an entry for Basing [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6652/basing/] [accessed 7 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "A 12th-century building evidently stood here, but no more of it is now to be seen than the north and south arches of the central tower; this is, however, sufficient to show that its plan was cruciform [...] In the north aisle is a re-used 13th-century doorway, but nothing else in the building is older than the 16th century, unless it be the east wall of the chancel. [...] The Purbeck marble font is of late 15th-century date with an octagonal bowl, stem and base. Each side of the bowl has a quatrefoiled circle between two narrow trefoiled panels, and the stem has small trefoiled panels." Dru Drury (1949) notes a 15th-century baptismal font in Old Basing, in which the sides of the octagonal basin "are carved in the form of quatrefoils, the octagonal stem[ is] also panelled by cusped arcading." [NB the Britannia Tour & Travel Guide [www.britannia.com] for this town, edited by David Nash Ford, informs that the font is now located at the west end of the south aisle of the nave, but quotes a description of this church from ca. 1843 that appeared originally in 'Collectanea topographica et genealogica' (London: J.B. Nichols, 1834-1843), according to which, under the heading 'North Aisle': "The font is at the west end. It is of stone, and octagonal, with two pointed arches in relief on each panel. It rests on an octagonal column, elevated on two steps." -- This same source suggests that the font may have been acquired from the church of St. Michael, Basingstoke, during its restoration ca. 1840]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; "bowl with a circle cusped into a quatrefoil between two narrow trefoil headedpanels on each face."