Ash No. 2 / Ash by Henley

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the base

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digtal photograph taken in 2006 by Michael Ford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1517252] [accessed 17 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ash Church. Historic Hartshorn Cottages (probably once an inn) and the spire of the Norman parish church, St Peter's."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2011 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2714542] [accessed 17 December 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church, Ash. The spire of the church from the Collins Gardens recreation ground."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2013 by Alan Hunt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3482393] [accessed 17 December 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: photograph by Judith Whitem [www.judithwhite.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Ash_ST-Peters_17C_font.jpg]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05078ASH

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Ash Church Road, Ash, Surrey, GU12 6LU

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located near Aldershot, 65 kms SE of London, on the Surrey/Hampshire border

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford

Historical Region: Hundred of Woking

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the S side of the nave

Century and Period: 17th century,

Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry for this Ash found in the Domesday survey. Brayley (1841) reports a font inside the church: "The font is a plain square stone, standing on wooden pillars". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin mounted on eight side columns and a central pillar; the only ornamentation appears to be some horizontal mouldings on the basin sides and the shaping of the capitals and base of the colonnettes; the central column of the base has several roll-mouldings as well. Bond (ibid.) writes that "nothing seems to be known of its history" but, by appearances alone it looks like 15th-century or later. The font is covered by a plain lid that appears to be of the same period; it is raised on a quadrangular plinth with kneeling stone. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The older part of the church has been a good deal repaired, but has been an aisleless building of nave and chancel of 12th-century date, the tower, built of Heath stone, being a 15th-century addition. The earliest details are in the south door and a lancet in the old chancel, both of early 13th-century date, and in the new north wall of the nave is reset a small 12th-century roundheaded light, much repaired [...] The south door dates from c. 1200 [...] The font is of wood, as at Chobham in this neighbourhood, probably of 17th-century date, the bowl octagonal, cut from one piece and lined with lead; there is a central stem with eight octagonal detached shafts." [NB: the church goes back to Norman times; Brayley [cf. supra] saw a square font ca. 1841 that does not match the description of the later font; we have no other information on the earlier font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.248428, -0.716191

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 14′ 54.34″ N, 0° 42′ 58.29″ W

UTM: 30U 659388 5679930

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, oak?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain, with metal ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-12-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Neeham, Albert, How to study an old church, London: Batsford, 1944