Shanklin / Schlenting / Selins / Sencliz / Sentlyngges / Sheynclyng / Shenklyn

There are three entries for Shanklin [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ5881/shanklin/] [accessed 14 February 2020] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "The church of St. John Baptist, [...] or the 'old church,' as it is called [...] has been so altered and added to that it is now of little interest. Originally it must have been of the usual aisleless type of manorial chapel"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. The Parish web site [http://st-blasius-church.org.uk/history3.html] [accessed 7 September 2011] notes: "Some twentieth century guidebooks have referred to the font as "modern" but in the vellum register containing Records of baptism, from 1724 (mentioned in Mr. Hewson's memorandum of the neighbourhood) the date is given as 1697. Certainly, the stonemasons who moved the font when the Baptistery was transformed into the Parish Room said that the stonework was much older than the Victorian mortar, which had been used to hold it together. Part old, part modern, massive and plain, it now stands opposite the entrance in the South transept".