Godalming No. 1 / Godeliming / Godelminge / Godhalminges / Godlyman

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the breakage line between the two fragments of the basin (?)

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of basin?

Scene Description: a basin made up of two of the fragments said to be of pre-Conquest origin; appears to have had animal (?) heads at 90-degree angles, and interlace motifs between them

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2383560] [accessed 26 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2383580] [accessed 26 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2383598] [accessed 26 April 2015]

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view of church interior - south side - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "Medieval Wall Painting. St John the Baptist (ca 1220), high in a lancet window on the south wall of Godalming's parish church, St Peter and St Paul."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1379129] [accessed 26 April 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern cover of the modern font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of object

Scene Description: the fragments said by some to be from an old font [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © University of London & History of Parliament Trust, 2010

Image Source: illustration in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911)

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view of object

Scene Description: the fragments as displayed inside the church in 2015

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of object

Scene Description: one of the fragments said to be of pre-Conquest origin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2015 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07219GOD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Church Street, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1EL
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located 8-10 km S of Guildford down the A286
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Godalming [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, now displayed in a case
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Cognate Fonts: Frensham, Beddington, etc. in the same area
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font and other objects
There is an entry for Godalming [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9643/godalming/] [accessed 26 April 2015]; it reports two churches and three hides of church land in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a square-bowled baptismal font of the Norman period made of dark Petworth marble from Sussex. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) reports a set of fragments that have been claimed as possibly belonging to a former baptismal font, a claim the VCH dismisses: "in a very hard shelly limestone, of pre-Conquest date. Two seem to have formed the rims of a circular basin or basins, but they are hardly large enough to have served for a font, as has been suggested, nor does the shape at all suggest such a use. The total diameter of the two halves is only 1 ft. 7½ in. by 6¾ in. in height and 3¾ in. thickness. The upright face is ornamented with four horses' heads, separating alternate designs of interlaced work and a running scroll, such as are found in the pre-Conquest arch at Britford Church, near Salisbury. A third fragment, with a basket-work pattern, may have been part of the block on which this basin stood; and two others with a scroll-pattern and figures, much defaced, suggest the stem of a churchyard cross. Some of these were found built into the walls, notably in the west arch of the tower, i.e. the chancel arch of the pre-Conquest church, suggesting that they had formed part of some building of even older date." The VCH (ibid.) further reports: "a disused font also of late character and quite plain", but gives no details of it. The present font resembles a classic a Norman font design, but it is modern; it is made of a light-coloured stone [Is it a copy of the font seen by Cox & Harvey?]. The three fragments are now displayed in a case inside the church at Godalming; two of them have been brought together and make up a round basin with what appears to be the remains of four possible heads at 90-degree angles; the spaces in between are decorated with varied interlace motifs; the object is small for a font, but it otherwise resembles a design that was popular across the Channel in the 12th century. [NB: if the VCH is correct and these fragments do not belong to a font, we are still missing the fonts of the two original churches reported in the Domesday survay [cf. supra]].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.186141, -0.616329
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 10.11″ N, 0° 36′ 58.78″ W
UTM: 30U 666581 5673225

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (with heads)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-08-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907