West Clandon / Clanedun / Clandon Regis / Clandun

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken October 2008 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: note the damaged area

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken October 2008 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - southeast side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of basin and cover - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "West Clandon Parish Church. A flint building with wooden tower."

Image Source: photograph taken March 1992 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/115578] [accessed 17 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "West Clandon Church Tower. This flint church has an uncommon wooden top to its tower."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2006 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/281330] [accessed 17 December 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2008 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context - east-southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context - west-southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2015 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07218CLA

Church/Chapel: Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: The Street, West Clandon, Surrey, GU4 7RG

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NE of Guildford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford

Historical Region: Hundred of Woking

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side, just W of the S doorway

Date: ca. 1180?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Frensham, Beddington, etc. in the same area

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [West] Clandon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0452/west-clandon/] [accessed 21 October 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a square-bowled baptismal font of the Norman period made of dark Petworth marble from Sussex in this church. Noted in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911): "The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but of this building nothing is now left. The earliest portion of the present structure is the nave, which dates from about 1180; it is of its original size, but now only retains (of the date) the north and south doorways; the chancel is a rebuilding of about the year 1200, and may have superseded a small apsidal chancel to the first building, or more probably the wooden chancel of the earlier Saxon building which may have been left standing after the nave was rebuilt in stone; of this date a lancet window in the north wall remains; the tower was probably added at the same period, but it has since been re-cased and much altered. [...] The font has a bowl of Sussex marble, square, with shelving sides, in which are arcades of shallow circularheaded arches which have been partly chiselled off; it is of the earliest date of the building; the stem and base are modern." [NB: it is difficult to decide whether that arcade is original or a later addition]; the upper side of the basin shows significant damage; the whole base, a broad central shaft and four slender colonnettes, as well as the quadrangular two-step plinth, are probably 19th-century, to judge by the marble-like external shafts. There is a wooden cover consisting of a flat and plain square platform with slender ribs joined at the knob finial; modern, too.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.250613, -0.50621

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 15′ 2.21″ N, 0° 30′ 22.36″ W

UTM: 30U 674032 5680649

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (dark Petworth marble from Sussex)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-09-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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