Crondall No. 1 / Corondale / Crondale / Crowdale / Crundal / Crundale / Crundelas / Crundele

There is an entry for Crondall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7948/crondall/] [accessed 30 July 2018]; it mentions a church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The font is an ancient one of a plain flower-pot shape; there is little to give its approximate age". The Hart District Council web site [www.hart.gov.uk/guide/places/plac_cr.htm] mentions "the Saxon font" in this church, but they are probably referring to the same object. Jenkins (2000) writes "The font is Saxon, as shapeless as a Henry Moore" [compliment? / deprecation?]. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The church contains a plain 12thc. font [...] At W end of nave bay 2, on the N side. A lined simple tub-shaped font in shelly limestone with claw-tooling and lock repairs to E and W on the rim. The font stands on a cross-shaped block, perhaps originally an abacus of the nave arcade, and this on a square chamfered plinth [...] The font appears to be 12thc., and not Saxon (as the author of the anonymous church guide has it)." [NB: there is a second font listed for this church as Crondall No. 2]