Dunsfold / Dunterfeld / Duntesfaud / Dunttesfold
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in April 1938
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1938 by Donald William Muggeridge, in the Mill collections, University of Kent [ref.: UKC-RUR-MUG-BW.F223392] [www.kent.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/mills/r.php/39152/show.html] [accessed 13 December 2015]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Smith
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view of font
Scene Description: Illustration in Geldart (1899)
view of church exterior - south porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07229DUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end., beneath the tower arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Church Address: Church Green, Dunsfold, Surrey, GU8 4LT
Site Location: Surrey, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B2130, 10-12 km S of Guildford [Diocese of Guilford]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hunndred of Blackheath
Additional Comments: damaged font - repaired font
Font Notes:
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No entry found forDunsfold in the Domesday survey. Brayley (1850) notes: "The font is a circular basin of Sussex marble sustained on a single column of the same form". Illustrated in Geldart (1899). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The date of the entire church is between 1270 and 1290, and it is remarkable for being practically all in the one style [...] The font with small circular bowl in Sussex marble is of uncertain date, but probably late 13th-century, although some authorities have placed it as late as the latter part of the 17th century." The font consists of a badly damaged and crudely repaired plain hemispherical basin of the limestone commonly known as 'Sussex marble', raised on a plain circular pedestal base with a splaying lower base also plain and round; on an octagonal plinth. The font is located at the west end of the nave, on the south side.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 669694 5665676
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.117396, -0.575377
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 7′ 2.63″ N, 0° 34′ 31.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850, vol. 5: 126
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 221
- Geldart, Ernest, A manual of church decoration and symbolism, containing directions and advice to those who desire worthily to deck the church at various seasons of the year: also, the explanation and the history of the symbols and emblems of religion, Oxford, London: A.R. Mobray & Co., 1899, p. 13