Holmbury St. Mary / Falady / Felday
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken January 2009 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Peel, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 10 July 2009 by Mike Peel [www.mikepeel.net] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Holmbury_St_Mary.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "This is the interior of St.Mary's church at Holmbury St.Mary"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 6 February 2010 by Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holmbury_St_Mary_Church_Inside.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Holmbury St Mary Font Inside St Mary the Virgin, Victorian font in pseudo-Perpendicular style, dressed with Christmas flowers."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2009 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14227HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Horsham Rd, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, RH5 6PF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B2126 [aka Horsham Rd], 7 km SE of Dorking, 13 km ESE of Guildford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: Church built by George Edmund Street in 1879; Street lived here with his wife until his death
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin, the vertical sides decorated with panels alternating flower-in-a-quatrefoil with foliated patterns, raised on a clustered column base, and a round plinth; flat octagonal wooden cover, probably contemporary with the 19th-century font. [NB: no record found of an earlier church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1883, -0.4132
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 17.88″ N, 0° 24′ 47.52″ W
UTM: 30U 680766 5673946
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]