Minchinhampton / Hantone

There is an entry for Minchinhampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8700/minchinhampton/] [accessed 19 February 2019]; it reports a priest in it but not a church, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 11, 1976) notes: "The church at Minchinhampton had presumably been founded by 1086 when a priest was recorded there. [...] The survival until the rebuilding of 12th century features in both chancel and north arcade suggest that at that period a cruciform church existed or was intended. [...] The rebuilding of the chancel, nave, and aisles, begun in 1842 and completed by the following year [...] The plain octagonal font of the 14th century was apparently removed from the church at the rebuilding but was restored to its original use after the First World War as a memorial to an officer killed in action." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C14, plain and octagonal; returned to the church in 1915 from the recory garden." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, plain except for a flat moulding at the upper rim; small concave underbowl chamfer; on a broad and plain cylindrical pedestal base; with round-to-square lower base. Octagonal wooden cover of the crown-type, two cron levels on which a thin pyramidal top, also octagonal. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11th-century church here] [the other two churches, at the Amberley and Brimscombe hamlets, are both of the 19th century, and both dedicated to the Holy Trinity].