Newdigate / Neudegate / Newdegate / Newedegate / Nudgate
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 June 2015)
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 June 2015)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2010 by Colin Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1751540] [accessed 30 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - altar and retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 June 2015)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2010 by Colin Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1751540] [accessed 30 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16256NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Lane, Newdigate, Surrey, RH5 5DL
Site Location: Surrey, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A24, 9 km SE of Dorking
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Copthorne (2nd division)
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Newdigate in the Domesday survey. Brayley (1850) notes: "The font is of an octagonal form, and stands on a baluster pedestal". The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "In the 12th century Hameline, the natural son of Geoffrey of Anjou, and Earl of Surrey in right of his wife Isabel de Warenne, granted the church of Newdigate to the Prior and monks of St. Mary Overy, Southwark [...] The nave and chancel are of 13th-century origin [...] The church was repaired in 1877 [...] All the furniture is modern, including the octagonal stone font." The stone font consists of an octagonal basin with panelled sides, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and handle. Both font and cover are modern, of the 19th century. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font(s)]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 689598 5671738
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.165612, -0.28812
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 9′ 56.2″ N, 0° 17′ 17.23″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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: 291