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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103036] [accessed 14 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 8

Scene Description: large ones, on the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103036] [accessed 14 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: at both ends of the basin

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Bartholomew Church, Burstow, Surrey. A delightful half timbered 11th century Church of England church in this tranquil village (other than all of Gatwick airports air traffic that thunders a few hundred metres overhead!). Restored 184-95."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2005 by Pete Chapman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/27703] [accessed 14 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2102978] [accessed 14 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover - northwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07244BUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Batholomew

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: Church Road, Burstow, Smallfield, Surrey, RH6 9RG

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located S of Blechingley, W of Horne, N of Copthorne, 8 km NE of Crawley, 11 km SE of Reigate

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark

Historical Region: Hundred of Reigate

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry for Burstow found in the Domesday survey. Brayley (1850) writes: "The font is of stone, octagonal, and ancient: it has on each side, a rose deeply cut in a quatrefoil; and rests on a plain octagonal pillar." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. [NB: C&H have "Burston"; there is no Burston in Surrey]. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The church of Burstow was probably built by the Archbishop of Canterbury on his land at Burstow, as it was always a peculiar of the see of Canterbury. [...] In 1121, when the earliest mention of the church occurs, Ralph, Archbishop of Canterbury, granted it to the Cluniac priory of St. Pancras at Lewes. [...] The plan of the nave, and probably that of the chancel, dates from c. 1120 [...] but nearly all the rest of the building, including the south aisle, belongs to the 15th century [...] The font is of 15th-century date, octagonal with quatrefoil panels on each side, and leaf paterae at the base of the bowl." [NB: we have no information on the font from the earlier church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.155922, -0.125313

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 21.32″ N, 0° 7′ 31.13″ W

UTM: 30U 701021 5671093

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-08-13 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