Seale nr. Aldershot / Seal

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view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - chancel and east end
view of font
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 07224SEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Elstead Road, Seale, Surrey, GU10 1HX
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A31, just SW of Aldershot, N of Elstead, and W of Guildford, below the Hog's Back
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Farnham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Frensham, Beddington, etc. in the same area
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original 12thC (?) church rebuilt 1861-1873 by J Croft
Font Notes:
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No Seale found in the Domesday survet [www.domesdaybook.co.uk/surrey.html] [accessed 5 March 2015]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a square-bowled baptismal font of the Norman period made of dark Petworth marble from Sussex. The font consists of a plain square block with a round inner well, raised on a broad square central shaft and four round slender colonnettes at the angles; square lower base, also plain. The wooden cover is round and flat, with a metal ring handle; square shaped with chamfered corners; probably Victorian.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.222374, -0.718348
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 13′ 20.54″ N, 0° 43′ 6.05″ W
UTM: 30U 659327 5677028
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Petworth marble / Sussex marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century? / Victorian?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907