Reading No. 4 / Rading / Reding / Redinges / Redynges

There are three entries for Reading [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7173/reading/] [accessed 28 April 2015], one of which parts, in the lordship of the Abbey of St. Martin's, Battle, mentions a church in it. A capital from the old abbey later carved as the basin for a baptismal font and now in the later church of St. James. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "The font bowl is a quadruple capital, hollowed out and smoothed on two of its faces (the N and E) to receive brass plates with coats of arms and inscriptions recording the foundation of Reading Abbey and St James's Church, and the discovery of the stone. The bowl stands on a central pier and four corner colonnettes of 19thc. date. Carving appears on the four corner capitals, on the four recesses between the capitals, and the deep, square abacus."