Cranleigh / Craneley / Cranle / Cranlegh / Cranley / Cranlygh

No entry found for Cranleigh in the Domesday survey. The font here is noted in Brayley (1850): "The font, which stands in the north aisle, is a plain octagonal bason, of stone, supported by a central column and four smaller shafts of a similar form." Noted in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911): "There is evidence of the existence of a church here in 1244 [...] The font, standing at the west of the first pillar in the north nave arcade, is of doubtful antiquity; if not new, severe re-tooling has robbed it of all appearance of age. The bowl is octagonal and quite plain, standing upon a large central drum and eight small shafts without capitals, having a cable-moulding twined in and out round them, for a base." The on-line church-guide [www.stnicolascranleigh.org.uk/guide.html] [accessed 28 March 2007] notes that the font is 12th-century "although the stone carving is a later copy". [NB: the font described in Brayley (1850) does not correspond to the font now in the church, unless the basin was re-carved after Brayley's visit, and the five-column base replaced by a nine-column base later].