Pirbright / Pirifright / Perifrith / Pirifrith / Purbright / Purifright

No entry found for Pirbright in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The chapel of Pirbright was in early times attached to the church of Woking, and was granted by Peter of Pirbright to the Prior of Newark in 1240 [...] The building is of little architectural interest, being mostly of 18th-century date or later [...] All internal fittings, including the octagonal font by the south door, are modern." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SU9423055916] (1967) reports a "C19 stone font, octagonal, with panelled sides decorated with quatrefoil panels on panelled, octagonal, stem" here; the present font, however, consists of a round urn-type basin raised on a quadrangular pedestal base; turned wooden cover; the whole probably 18th or 19th-century; are there two fonts here? [NB: corroboration of present font at Pirbright St Michael's done by Colin Smith for BSI on 8 June 2015: "There is definitely just the one font there just now, the white marble one, and no sign of the earlier stone tub. Maybe as you say, you will get the reason why from the incumbent vicar" -- BSI has photographic evidence of a different font in this church in June 2008, the octagonal font reported in the English Heritage listing above; we have no information on when the change took place, or of the wehereabouts of the octagonal 19th-century font.] [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 13th-century (?) church here].