Weybridge / Waybrugg / Webrige / Webruge / Weybrigge-juxta-Byflet

There are three entries for Weybridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0764/weybridge/] [accessed 21 December 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) notes: "The church, dedicated to St. James, was rebuilt in 1848; it contains a carved font". The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The advowson of Weybridge Church belonged with the manor to Chertsey Abbey. In the early 13th century the monks transferred it to Newark Priory [...] The old church stood in the present churchyard, a little to the north of the existing structure [...] [the present church] is a fairsized modern structure designed by Pearson"; there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry, old or modern. The All About Weybridge web site [www.allaboutweybridge.co.uk/aaw/stjameschurch.htm] [accessed 1 August 2008] informs: " Although the building of St. James’ was completed only in 1848, it replaced the Church of St. Nicholas, which had served the people of Weybridge for many hundreds of years". The present font is definitely Victorian and probably dates to the re-building of the church in 1848. It consists of an octagonal basin decorated with an inscription on the upper rim, circlesd and quatrefoiled panels with a variety of symbols and motifs on the sides, a row of ball-flower motif on the lower basin sides, and eight demi-angels holding open books on the corners of the underbowl; it is raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and a moulded lower base; the inner well of the basin is lead lined. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the medieval church]