White Waltham / Waltham / Waltham Abbas / West Waltham / Whitwalton / Whyte Waltham / Wygt Waltham

There are two entries for [White] Waltham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU8577/white-waltham/] [accessed 23 March 2015]; the one in the lordship of Chertsey St. Peter's abbey mentions a church in it. André (1883) writes: "At White Waltham, Berks., the font, when seen by me in 1851, was a simple white marble vessel, or deep bowl, not in any way resembling 'a vessel unto honour'; this precious production was perched on a wooden-hooped framework, like a hen-coop." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "At the date of the Survey there was a chapel in White Waltham which belonged to the abbey of Chertsey. [...] The history of the building has been largely obscured by the drastic restoration undertaken in 1868, when practically the whole of the church west of the chancel was rebuilt, but that there was a church here in the 12th century is shown by the Norman arch still standing on the south side of the tower, and the reset capitals to the shafts of the south doorway, which are also of this date." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].