Wanborough nr. Guildford / Wamberge / Wanbergh / Wanborowe / Waneberg / Weneberge
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 December 2015)
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the modern font: hexafoil inside and out
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 December 2015)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Bartholomew, Wanborough. Reputedly Surrey's smallest church, 45x18 feet, on a site where a Saxon church existed. Today's church is mainly Norman. behind it is Wanborough Manor, a WW2 training school for the SOE."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/854879] [accessed 12 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2376895] [accessed 12 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 December 2015)
view of font and cover in context
![Source caption: "St Bartholomew, [modern] Font. At the west end of this tiny Norman church in Wanborough. The church lies within a former Cistercian grange related to Waverley Abbey."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1080623001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Bartholomew, [modern] Font. At the west end of this tiny Norman church in Wanborough. The church lies within a former Cistercian grange related to Waverley Abbey."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/854942] [accessed 12 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 13561WAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Wanborough, Surrey GU3 2JR, England
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A31, 7 WSW of Guildford (dir. Aldershot)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Woking
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this modern font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Wanborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9348/wanborough/] [accessed 12 December 2015]; it mentions a church in it. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) informs: "The church was early appropriated to Waverley, (fn. 26) but it does not appear in Pope Nicholas's Taxation of 1291. [...] All the walls are of 13th-century date, except that at the west, this having been rebuilt in modern times […] The building was disused for two centuries, from 1674 to 1861 […] All the other interior fittings are modern." The present font is a Victorian attempt at a 13th-14th century hexafoil basin on a base of clustered columns. The wooden cover matches the hexafoil plan [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.231734, -0.662801
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 13′ 54.24″ N, 0° 39′ 46.09″ W
UTM: 30U 663172 5678191
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-06-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.