Byfleet / Biflet / Biflete / Byflete
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angel - head - in a quatrefoil - 3
Scene Description: wearing a hat with a cross on it; the wings forming a triangle above the head
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Image Source: photograph in Photographic Survey and Record of Surrey no. 2439, in Exploring Surrey's Past
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design element - motifs - foliage
symbol - shield - blank - 2
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Byfleet Parish Church. Ancient St Mary the Virgin, seen from the south."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2011 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2299669] [accessed 19 December 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07245BYF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 124 Church Rd, Byfleet, West Byfleet KT14 7NF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1932 346605
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the M25, 8 km S of Chertsey, 10 km SE of Staines
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Godley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this church
There is an entry for Byfleet [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0661/byfleet/] [accessed 19 December 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Simpson (1828) lists a Perpendicular font here. Allen (1831) writes: "At the west end is a font, the basin supported by a square pillar, on the lower part of which, on each face, is carved a double arch, and on the upper part roses." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911): "The church of Byfleet was among the possessions of the abbey of Chertsey at the time of the Domesday Survey [...] The font dates from the 15th century and is octagonal in plan with quatrefoil panelled sides to the bowl; three of these panels contain heads of angels wearing diadems, and two others have plain shields, the other three inclosing paterae of foliage. The stem is panelled with two trefoiled sinkings on each face, and the base is moulded."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.33187,
-0.47558
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 19′ 54.73″ N,
0° 28′ 32.09″ W
UTM: 30U 675858 5689757
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-09-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Allen, Thomas, A History of the County of Surrey ; comprising every object of topographical, geological, or historical interest, London: Isaac Taylor Hinton, 1831
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828
