Dorking / Dorchinges [Domesday] / Dorkinges

There is an entry for Dorking [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1649/dorking/] [accessed 14 December 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Brayley (1850) mentions two fonts in this church: near the chancel he notes "a small font, (or bason), on a baluster column", which might be a later font [17-century+?] or a holy-water stoup; the second font noted in Brayley (ibid.): "When the church was rebuilt, a new and handsome octagonal font, of freestone, which stands in the nave, was constructed at a cost of about 200l., [£200] subscribed by the neighbouring gentry; whose arms were sculptured and emblazoned on the shields that ornamented the upper part. But all these heraldic distinctions have been recently obliterated by order of the archdeacon of Surrey." Noted in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The floor and lower parts of the walls of the old church remain in vaults under the present church. [...] Probably little or nothing remained of the building recorded in Domesday, except as old material worked up on the walls; but the chancel seems to have retained to the last at the angles of the east end four flat pilaster buttresses of mid-12th-century character." The VCH entry reports a baptismal font of the 19th-century re-building of this church. The font is of the type in which the sides of the traceried octagonal basin overhang a richly-adorned buttressed stem ; the underbowl itself resembling a late-Gothic vaulted ceiling. It is a good Victorian version of a Gothic font. [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier church]