Barton Stacey / Barton Sacy / Berton Sacy / Bertone Stacey / Bertune

There are three entries for Barton [Stacey] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4341/barton-stacey/] [accessed 6 September 2018], one of which reports a church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church of Barton Stacey stood upon the land held by Walter son of Roger de Pistes in 1086 [...] and afterwards by his son Miles Earl of Gloucester, who gave it, circa 1136, to the abbey of Lanthony, co. Gloucester. [...] The oldest work in the [present] church is part of a nave of two bays which had narrow aisles, and a chancel of which no evidence remains; this was built late in the 12th century. About 1250 the building was enlarged [...] the font [...] is contemporary with the late 12th-century church; it has a square bowl of Purbeck marble, the sloping sides being relieved with shallow round-headed panels. The basin is circular and lines have been cut in the spandrels of the top; it is supported on a round stem and four round shafts with moulded bases standing on a modern chamfered plinth. The cover is a flat one of nine small quatrefoiled panels made up in 1870 from a screen formerly in Longparish Church." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU4351641215] reports "a Purbeck font of the 2nd period, having a square bowl, with arcaded sides, resting on a central drum and 4 columns" in it. Noted and illustrated in Southern Life [http://www.southernlife.org.uk/barton_stacey_church.htm] [accessed 4 September 2009]: "The superb 12th Century font is of purbeck marble. Traces of the original leather hinge and clasp remain. The cover, very badly 'restored', is from a 15th Century rood screen taken from Longparish Church." [NB: this same source reports: "A Holy Water stoup is to the left of the main door", but we have no date for it]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [source given: VCH, 4, 1911]