Southampton No. 4 / Hamwic / Hantune

There are four entries for Southampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4111/southampton/] [accessed 30 July 2019], one of which reports "3 churches. 1.0 church lands" in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The church of St. John was granted by William Fitz Osbern, earl of Hereford, to the abbey of St. Mary of Lire, which he had founded in the diocese of Evreux [...] This must have been soon after the Conquest, when he had probably himself received the grant from the king. He died in 1071. [...] Neither St. John's nor St. Lawrence's occurs in the Taxation of 1291. [...] The benefices of St. Lawrence and St. John were held together in 1614, and have so continued from that date. [...] After this [1708] the church of St. John, which stood in French Street, was pulled down under the faculty, the parishioners being bound henceforth to support the church of St. Lawrence. [...] The church of St. Lawrence being granted by Henry II to the priory of St. Denys, the patronage of this church was exercised by the convent till its dissolution; after which the first presentation by the crown was exercised 26 April, 1543. The benefice continued in the royal patronage except for the intrusion of Nathaniel Robinson, a Presbyterian, about 1648, [...] and is now in the gift of the Lord Chancellor." [NB: no font is mentioned in the VCH entry].