Grays Thurrock / Grays

There are five entries for [Grays and West] Thurrock in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/grays-and-west-thurrock/] [accessed 14 May 2018], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: [...] octagonal, with moulded top and under-side, each face with square panel carved with blank shields, rose, a flower, irradiated Agnus Dei, and a shield--a cheveron between three cinqfoils, two of the blank shields have later scratchings; stem with pointed panels and moulded base, 15th or early 16th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoil panels." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 8, 1983) notes: "The church of Grays Thurrock was given to the Knights Hospitallers in the later 12th century by William de Ferrers, earl of Derby. [...] The grant was confirmed c. 1190 by Richard FitzNeal, bishop of London, who at the same time licensed the appropriation of the church, and ordained a vicarage [...] The octagonal font dates from c. 1500." The font is now [2007] located in the nave, towards the west end, opposite the south doorway, near the arcade that separates the nave from the north aisle. The Parish website [http://www.graysthurrockteamministry.org/index_files/Page607.htm] [accessed 30 June 2010], however, informs that it used to be by the south door before the expansion of the church. [NB: the font in the Church of St. Mary, in Little Thurrock, Grays. Is 19th-century]