West Horsley / Horsaleges / Horslegh / Orselei

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: "The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by four shafts with scalloped capitals" [source: VCH [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2021 by Colin Smith

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design element - patterns - striated

Scene Description: "The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by four shafts with scalloped capitals" [source: VCH [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 April 2021)

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2011 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2705703] [accessed 30 December 2011]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2726080] [accessed 30 December 2011]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: "The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by four shafts with scalloped capitals" [source: VCH [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2008 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/897461] [accessed 30 December 2011]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 December 2011)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: "The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by four shafts with scalloped capitals" [source: VCH [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 April 2021)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: "The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by four shafts with scalloped capitals" [source: VCH [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Pam Bowley (2008) [http://www.hacsystems.co.uk/html/history.html] [accessed 18 February 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 18 February 2010)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: "The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by four shafts with scalloped capitals" [source: VCH [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 April 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07236HOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Epsom Road, West Horsley, Surrey, KT24 6AP

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A246 (Epsom Rd.), S of Ockham, 10 km ENE of Guildford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford [formerly in the Diocese of Winchester]

Historical Region: Hundred of Woking

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 13th century [re-tooled], Early English [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pam Bowley, of West Horsley, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [West] Horsley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0752/west-horsley/] [accessed 17 December 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "There was a church at West Horsley at the time of Domesday. [...] The tower, which is of the 12th century, is built against the west wall of the nave, which is therefore of earlier date than the tower. [...] The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by four shafts with scalloped capitals." Noted and illustrated in Bowley (2008) [www.hacsystems.co.uk/html/history.html] [accessed 18 February 2010]: " The font also dated from this time [i.e., ca. 1200] but has Victorian tooling around it now". The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin raised on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes; on a square lower base; the basin has a moulding at the upper rim but is otherwise plain; the columns of the base have capitals and bases. The wooden cover is round and flat, probably Victorian.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.262362, -0.441761

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 15′ 44.5″ N, 0° 26′ 30.34″ W

UTM: 30U 678484 5682110

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-12-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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