Milton nr. Cambridge / Middeltone

There is an entry for this Milton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4762/milton/] [accessed 29 June 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) notes: "The font, which is plain octagonal, is built into the northern jamb." Noted in Paley (1844) for its unsusual location inside the church, "against the chancel arch, and appears long to have occupied that unusual position." The Victoria County History (Cambridge, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "There was a church by the mid 12th century […] The earliest surviving part is the round-headed chancel arch, unmoulded on cushion capitals. […] he chancel was rebuilt after 1350. […] There is a plain octagonal font." The Milton All Saints' Parish web site [www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/milton/index.htm] [accessed 18 November 2007] informs: "In 1665 the visitation noted that the font needed leading" [i.e., a lead lining of the inner well of the basin].