West Meon / Menes

There is an entry for West Meon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6424/west-meon/] [accessed 9 July 2018]; it reports "1 church. 1.0 church lands" in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "At the time of the Domesday Survey there was one church in West Meon [...] The church of St. John was rebuilt in 1843–6 to the north of the former church, nothing of the older building being preserved. [...] The first book of the registers contains all entries from 1542 to 1639 [...] The old font was removed at the rebuilding, and is now in St. Edmund's, Lombard Street; its successor stands at the west end of the nave, and is octagonal, of thirteenth-century design." The modern font has eight pointed arches with symbols inscribed in them; the arches are supported by coloured colonnettes in the Victorian fashion prevalent of its time. The wooden cover is octagonal pyramidal with concave sides and crenellated finial; also modern. [cf. Index entry for London No. 96]