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Source caption: "St Martin of Tours, Epsom. The west end was built in 1824 and replaces the earlier building of 1450, of which only the tower remains encased in later stonework."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Martin of Tours, Epsom. The west end was built in 1824 and replaces the earlier building of 1450, of which only the tower remains encased in later stonework."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Craddock, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2009 by Hugh Craddock [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1143885] [accessed 16 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07246EPS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Church Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PX
Site Location: Surrey, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A24, 8 km SW of Sutton, 11 km SSE of Kingston, 25 NE of Guildford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Copthorne
Additional Comments: re-used font / re-cycled font -- disappeared fonts? (two fonts from the two Domesday-time churches)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Epsom [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2161/epsom/] [accessed 16 December 2015]; it mentions two churches in it. A font is reported in Epsom Church in Manning & Bray (1804-1814). Brayley (1850) reports that two churches at 'Ebesham' are mentioned in Domesday (1086), but admits that "nothing, however, is now known of the second church". Brayley (ibid.) quotes from Maning & Bray [cf. supra] a description of a font; the font belonged to a church that was demolished ca. 1830 "twenty years ago", in Brayley]: "The font, near the west door, is an octagon bason with quaterfoils [sic] on the sides, supported by an octagon pillar." That appears to be the same font which Brayley (ibid.) reports at the new Church of St. Martin: "The font, which is octagonal, and stands on a similar column, with niches at the sides, is ornamented with quatrefoils and varied central devices." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "Under the tower is a 15th-century font; it is octagonal with quatrefoiled sides to the bowl and a hollowed under-edge on which are carved heads, a shield, a fish, &c." [NB: the VCH (ibid.) reports a 19th-century font in the nearby chapel of Chist Church]. [NB: we have no information on the earlier fonts of the churches noted in Domesday]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 690918 5690172
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.330746, -0.259441
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 50.69″ N, 0° 15′ 33.99″ W

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850, vol. 4: 347-348, 357, 360
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 222
  • Manning, Owen, The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, London: [Printed for J. White by J. Nichols], 1804-1814, vol. 2: 616 [quoted in Brayley]