Sandridge / Sandrage / Sandriche / Sandrige [Domesday] / Sandruge / Sandrugge / Sanruge / Santrugge / Santrugia

There is an entry for Sandridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1710/sandridge/] [accessed 28 September 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Described and illustrated in Paley (1844) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period ornamented with saw-tooth motif at the upper rim, and a tall blind arcade of intersecting round arches. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a good example of a Norman cylindrical font". The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Sandridge belonged to the abbey of St. Albans, and was originally a chapel annexed to the church of St. Peter. […] The church is said to have been given to St. Alban's Abbey by Ecgfrid son of Offa, and there is a record of a consecration of the 'capella de Sandrage' (fn. 86) by Herbert Losinga, bishop of Norwich (1094–1119). The oldest parts of the existing building are the eastern angles of an aisleless nave, and part of a chancel arch of Roman brick. The angles have brick quoins, the walling being of flint rubble, and what is left of the arch shows it to have been of a single square order, and approximately semicircular. The building to which these features belonged consisted probably of a nave of the same length and breadth as that now existing, with a chancel shorter than at present, but perhaps of the same width. The plain character of the work and the use of Roman material suggest a pre-Conquest date, but may equally well belong to the chapel consecrated by Losinga at the beginning of the twelfth century. About 1160–70 north and south aisles were added to the nave, and towards the close of the twelfth century a west tower was built […] The font belongs to the second half of the twelfth century, and is circular, with an interlacing arcade of round arches, with scalloped capitals and moulded bases running round the bowl. Above the arches is a line of saw-tooth ornament." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: cylindrical, carved with an arcade of small intersecting arches and shafts, late 12th-century." In Tompkins (1922) as a Norman font. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a group of Norman fonts the basins of which are decorated with an arcade of intersecting arches [T-G's list includes: Purley (Berks.), Llanfihangel Abercywyn (Carmarthen), Tidmarsh (Berks.), East Horndon (Essex), Sandridge (Herts), St. Ives (Hunts.), Oakham (Rutland), Great Durnford (Wilts.)]. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Circular, Norman, with intersecting blank arches on colonnades." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/171/] [accessed 28 September 2016]: "Located at the W end of the nave in front of the tower. The font is tub-shaped and decorated with shallow blank arcading, with some variation in the design of bases and capitals. All piera have square plinths, necking below the capitals and a roll on the impost. The font has been completely broken in half (horizontally) and repaired at some point in its history. It is lead-lined and of Totternhoe stone. The supports are modern. ".