Buckland / Bochelant / Bocland / Bockland / Buckland nr. Dorking

There is an entry for this Buckland [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2250/buckland/] [accessed 2 June 2015]; it mentions a church in it. A font here is noted in Manning & Bray (1804-1818) [cf. infra]. Brayley (1850) notes: "The font is octagonal, plain and neat, with pointed arches: this appears to be the old font, mentioned by Manning and Bray as having been thrown aside in the vestry, and succeeded by a small marble basin on a slender mahogany pillar." The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The Domesday Survey records the existence of a church at Buckland. (fn. 62) From its foundation it belonged to the manor of Buckland, and was held with it as 'the church of the manor,' until 1567 [...] The church was rebuilt in 1860, and has no architectural details earlier than this date, and all the fittings are modern." The Parish website [www.stmarythevirginbuckland.net/resources_history.php] [accessed 12 August 2010] notes: "The font was referred to by Manning & Bray in 1818 as the ‘old octagonal font in storage’ [...] It is made of various colours of marble. It is suspected that the ornate octagonal ‘spire’ cover was the later work of Hardman in 1860." The same Parish site reproduces a ca. 1909 postcard showing a font and cover in the context of the church interior; the font in this image is modern, octagonal, and appears to match the multi-coloured marble font mentioned in the Parish entry, definitely not an ancient font. The English Heritage entry [Listing NGR: TQ2217750830] (1966) reads: "Solid font of multicoloured marbles inlaid in chalk, red, green and white, of octagonal plan with trefoil and quatrefoil panels on sides. Thick octagonal stem with broach stops forming square plinth, elaborate, crocketed and pierced octagonal plan spired font cover."