Newdigate / Neudegate / Newdegate / Newedegate / Nudgate

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view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - altar and retable
view of church interior - nave - looking east
INFORMATION
FontID: 16256NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Newdigate, Surrey, RH5 5DL
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
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)
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and modern font
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)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.165612, -0.28812
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 56.2″ N, 0° 17′ 17.23″ W
UTM: 30U 689598 5671738
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-08-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850