Fobbing / Fobinges / Phobinge

There is an entry for Fobbing [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ7183/fobbing/] [accessed 31 May 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The font is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble with two shallow-pointed panels in each face, eight small shafts and hollow-chamfered base, 13th-century, stem modern." The RCHM (ibid.) inventories also a 16th-century holy-water stoup in the south aisle, east of the south doorway: "large bowl recessed into wall" [no separate entry in this Index]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "central stem modern". In Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "C13, Purbeck marble [...]" The Parish website [http://www.stmichaelsfobbing.org.uk/history.htm] [accessed 23 June 2010] informs that parts of the original font were discovered at the time of the 1904-1906 renovation [the font is dated 12th-century in this source]; this same source also reports a small font in the south chapel: "The small marble font comes from the formed Fobbing Mission on Bell Hill, Vange. It is not just an ornament, but was frequently used for baptisms" [NB: modern, therefore not separately listed in this Index]