Orpington / Orpedingetune / Orpington in Bromley / Orpinton / Orpintvn

There are two entries for Orpington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4666/orpington/] [accessed 30 April 2024], the second of which reports two church in it [the other one probably in nearby Keston]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Newman (1980) notes the "Font cover. C15. Plain ribs and a finial", but not the font itself. The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number 1083559] notes: "The original nave is C11 in origin and has a late C12 W door. The chancel and NE tower are early C13. Some late C14 work including the addition of the W porch with the tomb of Nicholas de Ystele. NE Rufford chapel added in the C15. The NE vestry is also medieval in origin. Upper part of the tower rebuilt in the 1770s and again in 1809. Restored in 1874 when the NE vestry was added, and there was some refurnishing in the early C20 [...] Octagonal late C12 or early C13 font, standing on four marble shafts with moulded bases around a central core. C15 cover with ogee ribs and a foliate finial." The same entry (ibid.) adds: "There was a church at Orpington in the early C11, when Eadsige, a priest and royal chaplain, gave land to Christ Church cathedral, Canterbury. By the time of the Domesday book, there were two churches in Orpington, almost certainly All Saints and the church at Hayes. In the C19, Anglo-Saxon long and short work was said to have been visible in the SE corner of the nave before the restoration, and a Saxon sundial was found during the work in 1957."