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design element - architectural - arch - cinquefoiled - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bletchingley: St Mary the Virgin. The Church as viewed from Church Lane."

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bletchingley: St Mary the Virgin. Looking down the South Aisle from the Hermit's Squint to the 15th century font."

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bletchingley: St Mary the Virgin. The font which dates from around 1450. Albert Maynard carved the oak cover in 1906; his family is reputedly descended from one of Anne of Cleve's retinue."

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07243BLE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew, St. Mark, St. Mary

Church Location: Church Walk, Bletchingley, Surrey RH1 4PD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1883 743252

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A25, 5-6 km E of Redhill, S of Croydon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark [earlier in the Diocese of Winchester]

Historical Region: Hundred of Tanbridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave, S side

Date: ca. 1450?

Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular

Church Notes: 11thC tower; church restored in 1870 and 1910

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Blechingley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ3250/blechingley/] [accessed 22 March 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Brayley (1850) writes: "The font is a large and ancient octagonal stone basin, with two quatrefoils deeply cut in each face: it is supported by an octagonal column; each face of which presents a deeply-sunk pointed arch." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "Roger de Clare Earl of Hertford, who was lord of Blechingley after the death of his brother in 1152 until his own death in 1173, gave the church to the Cluniac priory of St. Pancras at Lewes [...] The earliest part of the present church appears to be the tower, which is possibly of early 12th-century date, but which may possibly have been added to a still earlier nave, incorporating its west wall. [...] The font is of 15th-century date, and is octagonal, with panelled faces to the bowl and stem." The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions a "mediaeval font Perpendicular, cover added 1906" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. A 'faculty' of 1908 exists in the National Archives [www.nationalarchives.gov.uk]: "St Mary the Virgin Blechingley: provision to coverfont, litary desk. DS/FO/1908/4/1-3 1908". The Historic Environment Record database [www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHHER_11274] [accessed 10 August 2010] has: "15th century stone font, octagonal bowl with quatrefoils, octagonal stem with trefoil-headed niches." [NB: the VCH (ibid.) notes: "The earliest part of the present church appears to be the tower, which is possibly of early 12th-century date [...] A larger nave was added about 1180", but we have no information on the earlier medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.241483, -0.099773

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 14′ 29.34″ N, 0° 5′ 59.18″ W

UTM: 30U 702431 5680676

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1906 by Albert Maynard

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes; pulley / counterweight

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-08-10 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