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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19thC font

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view of font and cover

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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design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arches

Scene Description: the 17thC font

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view of church exterior - south view

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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Scene Description: the 17thC font

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Scene Description: the 17thC cover

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Scene Description: the 17thC cover

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the 17thC cover

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Scene Description: several on the stem -- the 17thC font

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several on the lower base -- the 17thC font

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16821WOT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early?), Restoration

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist

Church Address: St John's Church Road, Wotton, Surrey, RH5 6QQ

Site Location: Surrey, South East, England, United Kingdom

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

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

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]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the two fonts in this church

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 682277 5677510

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.219843, -0.389785

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 13′ 11.44″ N, 0° 23′ 23.23″ W

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850, vol. 5: 38-39