Mattingley / Matingelege

There is an entry for Mattingley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7358/mattingley/] [accessed 31 July 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) entry for Heckfield includes the "chapel at Mattingley (dedication unknown) a small timber and brick building [...] chancel and nave date from c. 1500 [...] The furniture is all modern; the font is of marble, and there is an octagonal font in the churchyard [...] The registers—including that of Mattingley—begin in 1538." The VCH entry (ibid.) further notes: "In 1425 Pope Martin V granted licence to the inhabitants of Mattingley to have a cemetery at their chapel on their petition that the chapel had all parochial rights and insignia except burial, and that it was inconvenient for them to carry their dead to Heckfield, because Mattingley was distant 2 miles, and the waters between the two places were frequently in flood. (fn. 109) Mattingley continued to be a parochial chapelry dependent on the mother church of Heckfield until 13 January 1863, when it was formed into a district chapelry", therefore baptism was a sacrament within the rights of this chapelry and a font would have been in place to administer it. The Parish web site [www.mattingleypc.hampshire.org.uk/Parish_Church/parish_church.htm] informs: "The first church or chapel on the present site was probably built towards the end of the l4th century. [...] The Church has no patron saint. [...] The building of the present church was probably started towards the end of the 15th Century [...] On entering the church, the first thing to notice is the ancient font, for some time removed from the Church to the Churchyard and only comparatively recently restored to its rightful place." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU7363158094] mentions simply an "Old font' in this, originally 15th-century church.