Albury / Aldebur / Aldbury / Aldebury / Eldeberie

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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: the old basin, provided with a new base, now in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the old church now redundant

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior

Scene Description: the interior of the old redundant church, showing the base of the old font, next to the pillar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: inside the old church [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1277761] [accessed 13 December 2015]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave, behind the western pillar -- The VCH [cf. Font notes] reports the basin and stem moved to the new church, but the base still left in the old church

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

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view of font

Scene Description: the font as it was originally in the old church. The VCH [cf. Font notes] reports the basin and stem moved to the new church, but the base still left in the old church

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Brayley (1850)

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the modern base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2010 by Colin Smith

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view of font - base

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter & St Paul, Albury Old Church, Surrey - Font base"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1277754] [accessed 13 December 2015]

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view of font and context

Scene Description: the old basin, provided with a new base, now in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the old basin, provided with a new base, now in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the old basin, provided with a new base, now in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font base

Scene Description: the old base at the west end of the nave, old church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1277757] [accessed 13 December 2015]

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view of font base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cylindrical font base from Roman times in Albury's old Norman church. It is about 2 feet high."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2008 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/988380] [accessed 13 December 2015]

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view of font base

Scene Description: the base of the old font still inside the old redundant church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 February 2018)

view of font base

Scene Description: the base of the old font still inside the old redundant church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 February 2018)

view of font base

Scene Description: the base of the old font still inside the old redundant church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 February 2018)

view of font base - detail

Scene Description: the base of the old font still inside the old redundant church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 February 2018)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07228ALB

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

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Church Lane, Albury, Guildford, Surrey GU5 9AJ

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A248, 7 km ESE of Guildford, 11 km W of Dorking; the old church is in the grounds of Albury Park

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford

Historical Region: Hundred of Blackheath

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Albury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0447/albury/] [accessed 13 December 2015]; it mentions a church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Brayley (1850): "The font, which is of similar [i.e., Sussex] marble, is of a very rude and primitive construction; as represented by the annexed cut. The ancient font, removed from the old church, stands in front of the communion table." The illustration shows a square basin with round innder well, on a short cylindrical stem; below, a thin square platform on a broad circular base; all plain. There is a sketch of 1852 that includes the font pedestal in a sketchbook by Edgar Philip Loftus Brock (1833-1895) [ref. no. 6936/1 - held at the Surrey History Centre, Transferred from the stock of the former Surrey Local Studies Library in December 2000]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911 ) notes: "The old church of St. Peter and St. Paul lies close to the stream, and within a short distance of the house of Albury Park [...] In origin the nave is that of the pre-Conquest church, or at least of that mentioned in Domesday [...] The early font has been carried off to the new parish church, but its base block, a great circular drum of Bargate stone, remains close to the western column of the arcade." No date is given of the new church in the VCH: "Of the new church all that need be said is that it is in brick, and modelled upon the church of Than, near Caen, in Normandy [...] the font, probably of early 12th-century date, was removed here from the old church." [NB: the interior plan in the VCH shows the font location in the old church behind the west pillar of the nave, within view of the north entrance]. [NB: the 'Irvingite' Parish Church (Catholic Apostolic Church) of 1840 -- the church was closed in 1950 and is no longer open to the public -- its font is reported in Brayley (ibid.): "a plain octagone, of freestone"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.220493, -0.478689

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 13′ 13.78″ N, 0° 28′ 43.28″ W

UTM: 30U 676067 5677366

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite [basin]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-08-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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