Niton No. 2 / 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. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "The church is a very ancient structure; on the south side, without the wall of the cemetery, was formerly a cross raised upon steps, with a basin on the top, supposed to have been a font." The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) [transcription by Colin Hinson, 2003] writes: "Close to the churchyard are the ruins of an ancient cross, which was once raised upon steps, and had a basin on the top, supposed to have been used as a baptismal font". [cf. Index entry for Niton No. 2 for a Norman font in this locality]