Little Langford / Langeford / Langeforde

There are seven entries for [Hanging, Little and Steeple] Langford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/hanging-little-and-steeple-langford/] [accessed 3 March 2015], neither of which reports a cleric or church in it. A baptismal font of the Perpendicular period is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) in "Langford", Wiltshire [NB: this is probably Little Langford]. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "Little Langford church was standing in the later 12th century. [...] The reset south doorway is of the later 12th century and has a decorated tympanum above a lintel carved with a hunting scene. [...] Most features of the church were apparently reproduced when it was rebuilt in 1864 [...] The registers begin in 1699"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The baptismal font at Little Langford is a rather suspicious object, and one wonders if this is the same that Cox and Harvey saw. The font consists of a round basin, roughly cylindrical but with convex sides and decorated with a roll moulding on the lower side; chamfered underbowl of convex sides; the base is totally out of character with the bowl and appears recut: octagonal-to-square, with a square lower base. The bowl itself may have been re-tooled as well. Round wooden font cover, modern.