Havant / Hafunt / Hamanfunta / Havehunt / Havehunte / Haveunte / Havonte

There is an entry for Havant [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7106/havant/] [accessed 20 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The oldest architectural details date from the end of the twelfth century [...] Into the west wall of the nave is built a Purbeck marble slab with a curved lower edge, on which is carved in twelfth-century style a lion between two rosettes. It is perhaps part of a font. The existing font, which stands near the west door of the nave, was made in 1847." The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/12081] [accessed 20 June 2018] does not mention a font in it. A local historian [cf. infra] notes: "There is let into the wall of the west end, near to the font, a peculiarly carved stone. This was found in the rubble filling the tower when it was rebuilt in the 19th century. The carving has been called part of a Saxon font but it was very likely executed much later. Even so, it is probably the earlietst stone fragment in the church" [notes from 'The Parish Church History of St Faith, Havant", by Robert Oxford [cited in http://southernlife.org.uk/havantch.htm [accessed 12 August 2011]