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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several on the lower base -- the 17thC font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2016 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: several on the stem -- the 17thC font
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design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arches
Scene Description: the 17thC font
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view of basin
Scene Description: the 19thC font
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view of basin
Scene Description: the 19thC font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2013 by Nick Macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3384831] [accessed 14 December 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 17thC font
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19thC font
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the 17thC font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the 17thC cover
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view of font cover - detail
Scene Description: the 17thC cover
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view of font cover - finial
Scene Description: the 17thC cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16821WOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: St John's Church Road, Wotton, Surrey, RH5 6QQ
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A25, between Guildford, to the W, and Dorking, to the E
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wotton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 17th century(early?), Restoration
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the two fonts in this church
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Wotton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1247/wotton/] [accessed 14 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Brayley (1850) writes: "The font is a circular basin, of stone, standing on a similar pedestal, in a pew near the entrance." The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The church of St. John the Evangelist is not mentioned in Domesday, but from certain evidence in the existing structure it was probably standing in the 11th century [...] Within the chapel is preserved a font of white marble, with circular fluted basin on a tall baluster stem of about the same date, but possibly as old as the date of John Evelyn's birth in 1620." This font is probably the same one referred to in Brayley, but moved to the north chapel where it rests now. The VCR also reports a modern font in this church. The Historical Environment Record of the Surrey County Council [www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHHER_9694] [accessed 29 July 2010] reports two fonts in this church: "19th century stone font in 13th century style, old font now in north chapel. 17th century, stone with ogee cover." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.219843, -0.389785
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 13′ 11.44″ N, 0° 23′ 23.23″ W
UTM: 30U 682277 5677510
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: painted in bright colours; dove finial
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850