Longstanton No. 2 / Long Stanton / Longstanton St. Michael / Stantone / Stantune

There are four entries for Longstanton [All Saints and St. Michael] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/longstanton-all-saints-and-st-michael/] [accessed 30 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is illustrated in a June 1838 sketch by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. The entry for St. Michael's in Paley's Guide (1844) reports that "the font is modern", but the church itself, which he dates to ca. 1230, is "a beautiful specimen of a complete Early-English chapel". [NB: the presence of a well in the churchyard of St. Michael's appears to be popular knowledge in Longstanton. Phyllis Brown, in her 'Holy Well, St. Michael's Churchyard, Longstanton, Cambridgeshire' (1987) [http://people.bath.ac.uk/liskmj/living-spring/sourcearchive/fs7/fs7phb1.htm] [accessed 10 October 2007], mentions that this well was restored and dressed in September 1986 by Mr. A.E. Brown and that, "during the Festival weekend, Mr Brown met an elderly lady who said her mother had been baptised in the well one hundred years ago. Within living memory water has been taken from the well for use in the church font, for baptisms." The well is described and illustrated in Cambridgeshire Churches (2004): "St Michael's Well [...] sits in a little brick vault in the northwest corner of the churchyard. It is fed by a little spring, and has been here for a long time - the vault has been restored, but the stone lining of the well itself looks ancient. Children were baptised here as late as the 1880s, submersed in the cold water". The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "The two parish in Long Stanton, All Saints and St. Michael, were both first recorded in 1217. (fn. 1) No evidence has been found for the dependence of either on the other and they presumably originated as distinct manorial within the township. […] 2) The benefices were united in 1923 […] but the ecclesiastical parishes remained separate until 1959, when St. Michael's became a chapel of ease to All Saints. […] St. Michael's church was evidently founded by the lords of Colvilles manor, to which the advowson was attached […] Ashlar fragments reset in the north wall close to the door are probably of the 12th century, but the present building dates largely from the mid 13th"; no font in this church is mentioned in the VCH entry.