Perivale

No individual entry found for Perivale in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1951) writes: "Font. Plain octagonal C15 with handsome cover of 1665, a pine-cone finial on four volutes." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 4, 1971) notes: "No church or priest at Perivale is mentioned in Domesday Book, but a document of 1203, which refers to Perivale as East Greenford, mentions a church near the Brent. [...] The church, one of the smallest in the county, consists of chancel, nave, west tower, and south porch. The nave and chancel, which may date from the later 13th century [...] The small octagonal font is of late-15th century date, with an elaborate carved wooden cover given by Simon Coston in 1665." This same source notes that in 1836 " a motion to provide a new font and cover was negatived on the grounds that there were no christenings in the parish" [the VCH footnotes the entry: "Vestry Mins. quoted in Brown, Chronicles, 129"]. The Perivale Parish web site [www.perivale.co.uk/st-mary-the-virgin-church.htm] [accessed 27 March 2007] states: "There is a Tudor font dating from 1495", whereas the local history page www.st-marys-perivale.org.uk/history001.htm] [accessed 27 March 2007] gives the date of the font as 1490.