Longbenton / Long Benton / Mickle Benton

No individual entry found for Longbenton in the Domesday survey. John Besly's Desultory Notices of the Church and Vicarage of Long Benton, in the Diocese of Durham [...] (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1843) mentions no font in it, and dates baptismal registers to ca. 1650. 'A Balliol Gazetteer' [www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/history/gazetteer] issued on-line by Balliol College, University of Oxford, under the entry for Longbenton St. Bartholomew's, notes: "The font has the College arms (formerly known just as an orle for Balliol) on it" and adds that Balliol has had states in Longbenton since the 14th century [NB: Balliol College was founded in 1263]. The present font is either a surviver of the Perpendicular period or, more likely, a neo-Gothic vessel of the late-18th century restoration of the church.