Itchen Stoke / Echenstok / Ichenstok / Stoche / Ytinstoce

There is an entry for [Itchen] Stoke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5532/itchen-stoke/] [accessed 13 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There is no mention of a church in Itchen Stoke earlier than the end of the 13 th century [...] In 1291 [...] the church was assessed at 15 marks. The old church was situated a short distance to the south of the present one on the banks of the River Itchen, but was completely destroyed when the new church was built"; on the present building, the VCH (ibid.) adds: "The whole structure was built in 1864 and is of mid-13th-century French design [...] The seating, fittings, pulpit, font, &c, are all quite modern." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU5591232422] notes: "Furnishings contemporary with font of coloured enamel gilt bronze and black Californian marble." There is an earlier stone font in the church; it is reported in Dr. Isabel Sanderson's The history of St Mary's Church, Itchen Stoke [https://web.archive.org/web/20110827162655/http://southernlife.org.uk/itchstch.htm] [accessed 17 August 2018]: "Placed in the vestibule is 'an ancient font of stone, standing on four plain pillars, its sides rudely sculptured with something like an arabesque pattern of surrounding foliage' — such is the description recorded by John Duthy in the early 19th century after his visit to the old church in a meadow adjoining Water Lane where he saw the font. It is some three feet high and somewhat weather-beaten. Having been found in pieces in the present churchyard hedge where it had been dumped many years previously, it was reassembled by a recent vicar, the Revd. H. L. Atkins." Sanderson (ibid.) refers also to the later font: "an elaborate font in the aisle near the west door. It is octagonal in shape and is supported by eight slim columns of different coloured marbles, spaced round a central black marble shaft. The ends of the columns rest on a circular plinth of polished black marble and this. in turn, stands on a marble step some seven inches high. The font was erected by Henry Conybeare, the architect of the church, in memory of his ten-year-old daughter who died in 1861. The inscription round the top of the font records the death of his wife, Annie Conyheare. in 1871." [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church].