Creeksea No. 1 / Burnham-on-Crouch / Criccheseiam / Cricksea / Crixea

There are three entried for Creeksea in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ9396/creeksea/] [accessed 9 January 2022] none of which mentions priest of church in it. A font here is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with panelled sides, two carved with a saltire and one with a coiled serpent or whorl, 15th-century, base modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. C15, octagonal, carvings of a coil (serpent?) and a cross-saltire." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007), where the coil is described as a serpent. The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1123775] notes: "The medieval font survives with an octagonal, slightly tapering font: it probably dates from the C15 and has simple carvings of a saltaire cross and a serpent on its bowl." An anonymous article in the Creeksea Place site [www.creekseaplace.co.uk/history.pdf] mentions an earlier basin believed to be the font from the original church [cf. Index entry for Creeksea No. 2]