Melling / Melinge / Melling in Lonsdale / Melling with Wrayton

There is an entry for this Melling [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD3900/melling/] [accessed 28 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "The building is largely of 15th-century date, but some fragments of an older structure are built into the walls, and others have been found in more recent times, indicating a church on the same site at a very early period. A portion of a pre-Conquest sepulchral slab found 6 ft. below the tower floor is preserved in the vestry […] The font and pulpit and the fittings generally, with the exception of the seats in the aisles, which are the 18th-century ones cut down, are all modern." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]