Hanwell nr. London / Hanewelle

There is an entry for this Hanwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1679/hanwell/] [accessed 6 June 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font is mentioned in Lysons (1795): Thomas, a child "of Thomas Messenger and Elizabeth his wife, was born and baptized, Oct. 24, 1731, by the midwife, at the font, called a boy, and named by the godfather, Thomas, but proved a girl" [NB: despite the somewhat unclear syntax, it probably means that it was the midwife who made the mistake in the gender of the child, and that the true nature of 'Thomas' was discovered after the baptism]. [NB: Pevsner (1951) notes that the church is "not an old building", but Lysons reports that records from 1327 indicate ratings and valuations of this church and the rectory in the King's books, so there may well have been an earlier font at St. Mary's]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 3, 1962) notes: "The first time at which there is known to have been a church at Hanwell is the mid12th century. [...] It may well have been there for some time before, though there is no evidence for the statements by local historians that there was one at the time of St. Dunstan's alleged gift of Hanwell to Westminster Abbey. [...] The church of ST. MARY, Hanwell, was opened in 1842. (fn. 56) It stands at the end of Church Road on a site successively occupied by at least two earlier buildings. The medieval church, which was dedicated to St. Mary by the later 12th century, [...] was pulled down in 1781 [...] The church built to replace this one was opened in 1782 [...] The present church was therefore built in 1841 and consecrated in the following year. [...] The church was badly damaged by fire in 1912. [...] No monuments or furnishings have been preserved from the medieval church, except for a bell of 1760"; no font mentioned. [NB: the church of St. Thomas has a font but it is modern, of 1934, "carved by Vernon Hill in Weldon stone" according to the Parish' web site [www.thomashanwell.org.uk] [accessed 23 March 2007]]