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Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2015)
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2015)
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2015)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2537377] [accessed 20 April 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the much altered and restored old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12887CRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: High Street / Church Lane, Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 8AU -- Tel.: 01483 273620
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located 14 km S of Guilford, near the Sussex border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackheath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the first pillar of the N nave arcade
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled] / Modern?, Norman [altered?] / Modern?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
No entry found for Cranleigh in the Domesday survey. The font here is noted in Brayley (1850): "The font, which stands in the north aisle, is a plain octagonal bason, of stone, supported by a central column and four smaller shafts of a similar form." Noted in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911): "There is evidence of the existence of a church here in 1244 [...] The font, standing at the west of the first pillar in the north nave arcade, is of doubtful antiquity; if not new, severe re-tooling has robbed it of all appearance of age. The bowl is octagonal and quite plain, standing upon a large central drum and eight small shafts without capitals, having a cable-moulding twined in and out round them, for a base." The on-line church-guide [www.stnicolascranleigh.org.uk/guide.html] [accessed 28 March 2007] notes that the font is 12th-century "although the stone carving is a later copy". [NB: the font described in Brayley (1850) does not correspond to the font now in the church, unless the basin was re-carved after Brayley's visit, and the five-column base replaced by a nine-column base later].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 8' 30.21" N,
0° 29' 10.78" W
UTM: 30U 676409 5668006
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration atop
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850
