Effingham / Effingeham / Epingeham / Fingeham

There are two entries for Effingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1153/effingham/] [accessed 1 October 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Brayley (1850) describes a baptismal font in this church, but gives no clue to its possible date: "the font is a plain octagonal basin, on an octagon shaft". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) reports: "The church of Effingham was bestowed on Merton Priory by William de Dammartin [i.e., ca.1140-1195] [...] In 1291 the church was held by the priory and valued at £14 13s. 4d. with a pension of 26s. 8d. [...] Owing to the great amount of modern reconstruction which the building has undergone the history of the fabric is for the greater part lost, but enough remains to prove that it dates at least from the 13th century, the large south transept having the remains of windows of that date; no old features are left in the nave, but the proportion of two squares is suggestive of a 12th-century date. [...] The font is modern with a bowl of a fine piece of alabaster and a marble stem." C&H information may have been dated by the time of publication in 1907, as the old font was probably replaced in W.J. Shearburn's renovation of 1888. The whereabouts [fate?] of the old font are unknown.