Crowhurst nr. Oxted / Crauhurste / Croherst / Croweherst

No individual entry found for this Crowhurst in the Domesday survey. Described in Allen (1831): "The font is a large square basin, standing on a round pillar, and supported by a smaller one at each corner." In Brayley (1850): "The font is a large octagonal stone basin of coarse workmanship supported by a central column and a smaller one at each corner." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "Although the earliest detail in the building dates from the latter part of the 12th century, the nave belongs to a church of much earlier date and probably formed the body of a small church consisting of a nave having an eastern apsidal termination erected either late in the 11th or early in the following century [...] The font is of 13th-century date. The bowl, which is cut out of one stone, is broached from square to octagonal, the apex of each broach reaching to the top of the octagon. It has a central circular stem and smaller detached angle shafts without capitals or bases on a square base."