Cobham / Coham / Coveham / Covenham

There is an entry for Cobham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1060/cobham/] [accessed 21 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Allen (1831) writes: "The font is an octagon basin on a small octagon pillar." The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) reports only a modern font, without description, but notes: "Clement III (1187–91) granted leave to the abbey to appropriate the church on endowment of a vicarage. [...] About the middle of the 12th century the church seems to have consisted of chancel, nave, and west tower". The Parish web site notes and illustrates an octagonal font, on an octagonal pedestal base, "in front of the West door"; no date is given for this font. The present font is from the 19th century, of a Perpendicular design, decorated with mouldings, quatrefoils, ogee motifs, etc. It is located beneath the Norman tower. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].