Brook / Broc / Brok / Brooke / La Brouke

There is an entry for Brook in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ3883/brook/] [accessed 18 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1878) notes a font of marble in this church. White (ibid.) reports that St. Mary's was destroyed -only the tower was saved- by a fire on 9 December 1862, the replacement building being erected a year later. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "The church of St. Mary [...] possesses little of antiquarian interest. Completely gutted by fire in 1863, [...] it was practically rebuilt the following year [...] Of the original 13th-century church the only evidence is the arch [...] in the south wall opening to the tower, which must have originally opened into a side chapel, [...] and a carved stone representing a seated lion." There is no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The modern font is noted in Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "Bowl of trefoil shape in white marble with carved band under the rim; shorth stem of three clustered columns. By Farmer" [Thomas Farmer?]. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font, probably destroyed in the fire]