Limpsfield / Lemnefeld / Lemnesfeld / Lemnysfeld / Lempnesfeld / Limenesfeld [Domesday] / Lymefeld / Lymenesfeld

There is an entry for Limpsfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4053/limpsfield/] [accessed 24 March 2016]; it reports a church in it. Allen (1831) writes: "The font is a plain square white stone, in which is the basin; it is supported by a pillar at each corner." Brayley (1850) notes that the Domesday Book registers a church in 'Limenesfeld', a church dedicated to St. Peter in Brayley's time; Brayley adds: "On the left of the south entrance is a plain, square, massive stone font, supported by a stout fluted pillar in the centre, and a small pillar at each corner." Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is E[arly] E[nglish], square, on a stem with four shafts at the angles. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "The original church [was] built probably about 1180 [...] The font is of early 13th-century date, and has a square bowl with a moulded capping, supported by a moulded octagonal stem and circular shafts with moulded capitals and bases, all on a double plinth." The Photographic Survey and Record of Surrey no. 8292 [http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHILL_14582] [accessed 11 August 2010] reports holdings of a 1930 photograph by J.G. Potter with title "Limpsfield Church - font and western pillar of south nave arcade. Date of both c.1210".