Woodmansterne / Odemerestor / Wodemansterne / Wodemansthorne / Woodmanston / Wudemareschorn / Wudmannesthorne

There is an entry for Woodmansterne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2760/woodmansterne/] [accessed 21 March 2016]; it reports a church in it. Brayley (1850) notes: "The church is dedicated to St. Peter [...] This edifice was repaired in 1829 [...] The font is a neat basin of grey marble, on a stone shaft." The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "A church situated on the land of Richard de Clare is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. [...] It was granted to the convent of St. Mary Overy in Southwark by Nigel de Mowbray in the reign of Henry I. [...] The church of ST. PETER, [was] entirely rebuilt in the year 1876 [...] The font of the former church is now in a carpenter's shed adjoining the old rectory. It is much mutilated, but is apparently modern." The entry in The Diocese of Southwark [www.soutwark.anglican.org/parishes/312f_a.htm] notes: "The font was restored in the church in 1945. It was made in 1845 and stood in the old church until 1870. Some mystery attaches as to what happened to it then, it is believed that it was abandoned in the churchyard until its restoration. The cover is of fine carved 17th-century woodwork, the keys of St Peter being added in 1945. There is also a small portable font, made of marble and dating from 1730. This can be seen on one of the south window sills." This same source notes that "registers of baptism [...] are almost complete from 1566". [NB: we have no information on the early font of this church]