Longparish / Middeltune / Middleton / Middletune

No individual entry for Longparish found in the Domesday survey, but there is an entry for this Middleton [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4244/middleton/] [accessed 4 September 2018]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The font near the west end of the nave has a tall modern canopy which swings on a pivoted iron bracket", in reference to the present 18th-century (?) font. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU4245443931] reports "a C18 font with an oval basin resting on a square baluster" in it, and dates the church itself to ca. 1200. The present font in this church is an oval basin with sides decorated with mouldings, shells, swags and gadroons, and raised on a baluster-type square pedestal base. The wooden cover on it is round and flat, perhaps contemporary of 19th-century. There is also a tall Gothic cover that is kept inside the church, in the south aisle; if it is original, it appears to have been greatly restored. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to ca. 1200, but we have no information on the medieval font; a Victorian font, probably from the 1850s renovation of the church by Henry Woodyer, was replaced by the earlier Georgian font now in use [cf. supra]. [NB: Stevens (1880) mentions a fifth Hampshire font like those at Wichester, East Meon, Southampton St. Michael's and St. Mary Bourne, at "Middleton, near Winchester"; this is the only 'Middleton' we could located in Hants., now known as Longparish, with a 13th-century dedicated to St. Nicholas, but no knowledge of a Tournai-type font on record]