Hannington nr. Kingsclere / Hanitune / Hanyngton

There are two entries for this Hannington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU5355/hannington/] [accessed 8 March 2018], one of which, in the lordship of the Bishop of Winchester, reports a church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "At the time of the Domesday Survey [i.e., 1086 AD] there was a church in Hannington [...] The north-east angle and doubtless much of the north and east walls of the nave are of pre-Conquest date [...] The altar, font, &c, are all of modern date". English Heritage [cited in the British Listed Buildings database [ww.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-138169-church-of-all-saints-hannington] [accessed 31 May 2012] reports "the baluster stem of a classical font (the present font being Victorian)". [NB: we have no information on the early font(s) of this church]. [NB: the Parish/Benefit web site [www.stmichaelshighworth.co.uk/hannington.htm] [accessed 31 May 2012] notes: "Hannington Church is dedicated to St John the Baptist, but records of 1317 suggest that it was previously dedicated to St David. This was not the first church on this site. The south doorway and the porch doorway are the remains of an earlier building of around 1160. [...] The font was originally a plain octagonal one of the 15th century. There is a drawing of it in the British Museum. In 1851 it was restored, the plain surface was carved, and the original stem replaced by a new one. The old one was given to Stanton Fitzwarren Church."