Crux Easton / Corckes Estone / Crokeston / Crookes Eston / Estune / Eston / Eston Croc

There is an entry for [Crux] Easton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4256/crux-easton/] [accessed 23 August 2018]; it reports a church in it. White (1878) writes: "The font is of carved Italian marble, upon a stone base, and stands within the altar rails." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There was a church in Crux Easton at the time of the Domesday Survey [...] A church is known to have stood here in the 12th century, but the only fragment remaining of it is a piece of stone in the rectory garden carved with zigzag ornament. [...] The church of St. Michael is a small structure re-erected on the old site in 1775 [...] The furniture is all modern except an 18th-century pulpit, and the font, which has a white marble bowl carved in relief with cherubs' heads and foliage; the stem is of stone, and has a band of carving in high relief, with figures apparently representing the bringing of the children to our Lord, the head of every one wherever possible having been broken off, evidently a work of premeditated malice or mischief. The work appears to be Italian and of 18th-century date, the stem and the bowl having originally no connexion." [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the earlier churches here]