Lambeth / Lambehide / Lambehitha / Lameham / Lamehei / Lamhea / Lamheth / Lanchei

There are two entries for Lambeth in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ3079/lambeth/] [accessed 8 March 2016], one of which reports a church in it. The Survey of London (1951) [www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol23/pp104-117] [accessed 8 March 2016] notes: "The Church of St. Mary, Lambeth [...] was for many centuries almost an adjunct of the palace [...] From the entry in Domesday Book we know that there was a church dedicated to St. Mary in Lambeth before the Norman Conquest and that it belonged to the Countess Goda, sister to King Edward the Confessor. [...] Of the mediaeval church, only the tower now survives. [...] The mediaeval font was painted and lined with lead. [...] It was replaced in 1615 by a marble font supported on an octagonal pillar with a cover and enclosure of wood, presented by John Hart, gentleman. In the time of Nichols (1786), the canopy was “handsomely painted with the text round the edge ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not; for of such is the Kingdom of God.’ ” [...] This font was removed to Holy Trinity Church, Carlisle Lane, in 1851 [...]; it was replaced by the present elaborate font, carved by G. P. White, when the church was rebuilt. This is wearing badly. Four panels are filled with the names and emblems of the four evangelists, while in the other four the subjects depicted are, The Deluge, the Israelites crossing the Red Sea, Christ blessing the children, and the Baptism of Christ. The font for total immersion is below the level of the church and is approached by two flights of marble steps. It was installed by John Andrewes Reeve (rector, 1894–1903) in memory of Archbishop Benson." The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "The advowson of the church mentioned in the Domesday Survey belonged with the manor to the Prior of St. Andrew's, Rochester. Since the exchange of lands in 1197 it has always belonged to the Archbishops of Canterbury. [...] The only original portion of the structure of the church of ST. MARY [...] that now remains above the foundations is the tower, which appears to date from the latter half of the 15th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry.