Bisley / Bisley nr. Woking / Bisteleye / Busheley / Busseleghe / Busssley

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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St John the Baptist Church, Bisley. This view of the church of St John the Baptist at Bisley shows the 13th century Nave and the Belfry and Porch which were added during the 14th century. Extensive renovation of the church was carried out during the 19th century."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist Church, Bisley. This view of the church of St John the Baptist at Bisley shows the 13th century Nave and the Belfry and Porch which were added during the 14th century. Extensive renovation of the church was carried out during the 19th century."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2014 by Len Williams [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3934513] [accessed 18 December 2015]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 13848BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Lane, Bisley, Surrey, GU24 9DX
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A322, just S of Chobham, 6 km NW of Woking
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Godley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1872?
Century and Period: 12th century / 19th century, Late Norman? / Victorian?
Font Notes:
No individual entry found for this Bisley in the Domesday survey. Allen (1831) notes: "The font is round, quite plain." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) reports: "The nave is probably that of a 12th-century building, but no details of that or even of the two following centuries are left […] The altar table and font are modern […] The church contains no ancient monuments" [NB: not certain whether the font noted in Allen was the early one, as the renovation of this church occurred in the early 1870s; if not the old font, we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.327268, -0.627013
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 19′ 38.17″ N, 0° 37′ 37.25″ W
UTM: 30U 665327 5688893

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-09-21 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