Tatsfield / Tate Feld / Tatelefelle / Tatelysfeld / Tatlesfeld / Tattelesfeld / Tattesfeld

There is an entry for Tatsfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4257/tatsfield/] [accessed 28 March 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Brayley (1850) writes: "The font is a small rude, octagonal stone basin, supported by a pillar in the centre." The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "The church is of unknown dedication. [...] There was probably a church here in the 11th century. The nave is certainly at least as old as c. 1075 [...] All the seating and other fittings, including the communion rails and font, are modern. The font existing in 1720 had a 'stone bason sunk within a square pedestal.'" [NB: the VCH gives the dedication of the church as unknown]. The HER databse [www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHHER_11059] [accessed 12 August 2010] gives the dedication of the church as St. Mary the Virgin, and describes the present font: "Stone font, bowl on stem with billet type decoration on top." [NB: the two fonts mentioned in these sources may be one and the same; an unidentified local source claims the present font, with a plain square basin, is late-Medieval; we have no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font]