Streatham / Estreham / Stratham / Streteham / Stretham /

There are four entries for Stratham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ3071/streatham/] [accessed 10 March 2016], one of which reports a church in it. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "There was a chapel on the land of St. Mary of Bec in Streatham in 1086 [...] This, which was probably for the use of the monks settled there, may have afterwards become the parish church of which the first mention seems to be that of 1291 [...] The oldest part of the [present] church is the tower, which appears to date from early in the 16th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. A font here is noted in the Church Guide posted in the Streatham St Leonard's web site: "The 15th century bowl of the font was restored after the fire and placed on a new pedestal". This web site includes a plan of the church interior showing the font at the west end of the nave, in the centre aisle, just east of the organ. The font consists of an octagonal basin, the sides decorated with a floral motif inscribed inside a quatrefoil panel; the underbowl appears to have a graded moulding. The wooden cover, octagonal and flat, appears modern.