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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the underbowl, making up the capitals of the columns of the base

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1814112] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: all around the top of the five shafts

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1814112] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2013 by The Voice of Hassocks [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrew's_Church,_Gatton_Park,_Gatton_(NHLE_Code_1294726)_(June_2013).JPG] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Gatton. Grade I listed church, dating originally from the 13th century, but much remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries by successive owners of Gatton Hall."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2011 by Ian Capper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2307664] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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view of church interior - choir - stalls - bench end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2010 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gatton_Park_Church,_Merstham,_Surrey,_UK_(6441772863).jpg] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1814122] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the far end, beneath the west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2010 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gatton_Park_Church,_Merstham,_Surrey,_UK_(6442808293).jpg] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1814112] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05282GAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Gatton Park, Merstham, Surrey, RH2 0TG

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located W of Merstham, in the triangle made between Redhill, Reigate and the M25, 3 km NE of Reigate. The church is in the grounds of the Royal Alexandra & Albert School, Merstham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark

Historical Region: Hundred of Reigate

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the tower

Century and Period: 13th century [altered], Early English [altered]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Gatton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2752/gatton/] [accessed 15 December 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Brayley (1850) refers to the church listed as 'Gatone' in Domesday, and adds: "The Church at Gattyon had its origin in the Anglo-Norman age; but to what saint it was dedicated is unknown." Brayley (ibid.) further notes that the church was "almost entirely renovated" in 1834; in the west end of this church Brayley (ibid.) reports: "raised upon a plinth and step, is an octagonal font, which belonged to the old church, and is supported by a central column, and four smaller columns at the sides". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 13th-century octagonal mounted font; the basin, octagonal and with vertical sides, looks very much like it has been recut (perhaps at the time of the Reformation), its totally unadorned panels a contrast with the beautifully rendered leaf capitals of the columnar base; the cluster of columns of the base consists of a broad central column and four engaged corner colonnettes, all of them topped with the said capitals. The one-step plinth is octagonal and totally plain. The font is covered with a plain wooden lid, octagonal as well. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911): "A church at Gatton is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. [...] The advowson evidently belonged to Herfrey as lord of the manor, for he granted it to the priory of St. Pancras founded at Lewes by William de Warenne. [...] The general appearance is that of an early 19th-century Gothic building, almost every trace of antiquity being absent. There is, however, a piscina in the chancel which seems to be of late 13th-century date, and the east window of the north transept may be of 15th-century date, and a good part of the walling of the nave and chancel is probably ancient. The font at the west end under the tower has a band of good 13th-century foliage below the bowl, though it is otherwise much altered."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.259689, -0.170359

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 15′ 34.88″ N, 0° 10′ 13.29″ W

UTM: 30U 697427 5682508

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, freestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-09-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907