Lilley / Linlea / Linlee / Linlega / Linlegh / Linlei / Lylle / Lylly / Lyndley / Lyngeleye / Lynley / Lynleye

There is an entry for Lilley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1126/lilley/] [accessed 12 October 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church, though there must have been one in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911) has: "Font: octagonal, of clunch,15th-century." The Victoria County History (Hertsfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The earliest record of the advowson of the church of Lilley is in the year 1213, at which date it was in the king's hands, with other property of the Normans […] The parish church of ST. PETER, which stands in the village, was originally built in the 12th century. It was, however, wholly rebuilt in 1871, a few portions of the old church and some fittings being retained in the new building. […] The font, of the 15th century, is octagonal and of clunch." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL1183226370] (1968) reports: "At W end of nave C15 octagonal clunch font with thick shaft, moulded corbel stage to plain bowl with sunk cross on E face. Moulded projecting rim. Flat octagonal
wooden cover with moulded edge and fat turned finial with 3 dimensional cross on top." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977) as a 15th-century font from the medieval church, that survived the restoration of 1870-1871.