North Baddesley / Baldisle / Bedeslei

There is an entry for [North] Baddesley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4020/north-baddesley/] [accessed 24 July 2018]; it reports a church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The church of North Baddesley is mentioned in the Domesday Survey; but, like the manor, it had passed into the possession of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem before 1167 [...] The church remained with the Knights Hospitallers until the dissolution of the monasteries [1536-1541] [...] it is to be noted that in the porch floor, near the north-east angle, is part of an octagonal shaft of twelfth-century date ornamented with zigzag, perhaps a relic of the former church. Its present position, nearly buried in the floor, may be due to its re-use as the pedestal of a holy-water stone here. [...] The west gallery has an eighteenthcentury panelled font". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU4046020644] reports a "C14 octagonal Purbeck font" in it. Described and illustrated in the Parish web site, after the contents of a booklet written by K.J. Ritchie, churchwarden in 1948-1950: "The Font, which stands a little to the east of the South door of the nave, is of Purbeck marble [i.e., a type of limestone], with an octagonal bowl, stem and base. The details of the base suggest a 14th century date." [source: www.baddesleychurch.org]