Ropley / Ropeleia / Ropeley / Roppele / Roppeleghe

No entry for Ropley found in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 2011] notes: "The oldest parts of the building belong approximately to the middle of the twelfth century [...] the font, at the west end of the north aisle, is of the fifteenth century, with a plain octagonal bowl and short panelled stem, and on the chamfer at the base of the bowl plain shields alternating with paterae of foliage." [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church]. The VCH (ibid.) further notes "an octagonal corbel for a holy-water stone" in the northeast corner of the south porch. [NB: the BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-27918810 [acccessed 19 June 2018] reported this church gutted by fire in the morning of 19 June 2014: "A huge fire has destroyed a Grade II listed church that dates back to Norman times in a Hampshire village." The destruction of the font was noted in a 26 June 2014 article bu Charlotte Neal in the Southern Daily Echo [http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11300469.Huge_extent_of_church_destruction_revealed/] [accessed 19 June 2018] and in an article in the 24 October 2017 issue of The Hampshire Chronicle [http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/15615085.PHOTOS__The_vision_for_a_new_church_after_it_was_destroyed_in_a_fire/] [accessed 19 June 2018]: " More than 100 firefighters tackled the blaze near Alresford, which destroyed centuries old medieval architecture, records dating back to the 1960s, the pulpit, and a 16th century font. All that remained were the outside walls"].