Durley / Derleie / Durle / Durlye / Dyrle

There is an entry for Durley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3510/durley/] [accessed 28 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "Until 1853 Durley was a chapelry of Upham [...] In the twelfth century the advowson of Durley went, together with that of the mother church, to the hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, in accordance with a grant made by Henry de Blois [1101-1171], bishop of Winchester, to that body. [...] The font is of late twelfth-century type, with a square Purbeck marble bowl on a central and four angle shafts; on each side of the bowl are four shallow round-headed arches. It stands near the south door of the nave." The entrry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU5083117713] reports "a Norman font on pillars, and a fragment of C14 wall painting, representing a ship" in it. The font appears to have been restored or re-tooled, but it has beem kept to the general appearance of the original font; it stands on an added multiblock lower base of quadrangular shape. The font cover consists of a flat round platform with a praying angel of brass; modern. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with four panels on each face; the base is modern" [source given: VCH, 3, 1908].