Islington nr. Highbury Fields / Iseldone / Isendone

There are four entries for this Islington [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ3184/islington/] [accessed 25 June 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 8, 1985) notes: "Islington church served the whole parish until 1814. It was recorded in the settlement, enrolled between 1163 and 1180, of a dispute about the rectory and advowson [...] The church of ST. MARY, so called by 1392, (fn. 29) has been rebuilt at least three times on the same site. A stone from a building of the earlier 12th century was found in the walls of the crypt in 1938, [...] but the church demolished in 1751 was apparently of the mid 15th century [...] The font, two brasses of the Fowler family, the lectern eagle, and the coat of arms of George II are from the previous church and the organ is from the demolished church of St. Mary, Bourdon Street, Berkeley Square. [...] The church was bombed in 1940. Everything except the tower was rebuilt in 1954-6 on the 18thcentury plan"; all other churches here noted in the VCH entry [cf. supra] are modern. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ3174483875] notes: "The original church of 1751-54 by Launcelot Dowbiggin; portico added 1903; all but the tower and portico rebuilt after bomb damage, 1955-6" but mentions no font in it. The present font in use in this church is probably 18th-century and it survived the WWII bombing of the church; it is an unremarkable sample of the baluster-type design.