Witney / Witenie / Wyttannige

There is an entry for Witney [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3509/witney/] [accessed 11 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 14, 2004) notes: "Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the existing building [...] Witney church was first recorded in 1162, when Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester, granted it to the hospital of St Cross in Winchester [...] The font, which stood in the late 18th century towards the north-west end of the nave and in 1854 near the south door, was replaced [1866-1867] by a new one in Romanesque style, placed in the centre of the nave towards its west end." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original, or its later replacement]