Fawley nr. Henley / Falelei / Falelie / Fallay / Falle / Fallegh / Fauley

There is an entry for this Fawley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7686/fawley/] [accessed 25 May 2015] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A reference to the font in the church at Fawley is found in the Lysons (1806), who inform that the church was fitted up in 1748 and many of the furnishings, including the baptismal font "were brought from the chapel at Canons, the magnificant residence of the duke of Chandos, which had been pulled down and sold piece-meal the preceeing year." [NB: James Brydges, duke of Chandos, 1674-1744] -- [The reference to Fawley in Lysons' transcription can be found in www.genuki.com]. The same information on the font is given in Langley (1797). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports also that the font came from the chapel at Canons. Sheahan (1862) reports: "The font is of white marble and small." No font mentioned in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912) entry for this church. A font is noted in Pevsner (1960). The Parish web site [http://hambleden-valley-churches.org.uk/FAWhistory.htm] [accessed 9 December 2011] reports the font in use as being from 1884, made of marble. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes that the earliest part of the church, the nave, dates from the 12th century, but we have no information on the font of that building.