Sutton / Sudtone / Sutton-by-Cheam / Sutton Common, Sutton New Town

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Source caption: "St Nicholas is the town centre Anglican church in Sutton, though in ecumenical partnership with other denominations and in a Team Ministry with other Anglican churches. The present building, which is listed, was designed by Edwin Nash and opened in 1864, but on a site that has been used as a church since Saxon times. It is difficult to photograph the entire building as it is hemmed in by trees and other buildings. This is the south side."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas is the town centre Anglican church in Sutton, though in ecumenical partnership with other denominations and in a Team Ministry with other Anglican churches. The present building, which is listed, was designed by Edwin Nash and opened in 1864, but on a site that has been used as a church since Saxon times. It is difficult to photograph the entire building as it is hemmed in by trees and other buildings. This is the south side."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/938023] [accessed 21 March 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/938028] [accessed 21 March 2016]
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view of font and cover

the modern font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/938031] [accessed 21 March 2016]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 16842SUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: St Nicholas Way, Sutton, Greater London SM1 2RG
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located just NE Cheam, 17 km SW of Charing Cross, in the London borough of Sutton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark
Historical Region: Hundred of Wallington -- formerly in Surrey
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Sutton[-by-Cheam] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2563/sutton-by-cheam/] [accessed 21 March 2016]; it reports two churches in it. Brayley (1850) reports: "A small stone font, or basin, is in one of the pews, near the vestry." The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "In the Domesday Survey two churches are mentioned on the manor [...] The church of ST. NICHOLAS, rebuilt in the year 1862"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. [NB: the medieval church was demolished in 1860 and a new building erected soon thereafter; the font Brayley reports would have been 17th-century or later, most likely, perhaps even from the Commonwealth times (1649), when many medieval fonts were replaced by simple basins; the present font is modern; we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.362769, -0.194736
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 21′ 45.97″ N, 0° 11′ 41.05″ W
UTM: 30U 695288 5693903

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-03-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850