Titsey / Ticesei / Ticesey / Ticesie / Tichesey / Ticheseye / Tycheseye / Tytsay
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2007
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James's Church, Titsey. The original church of St. James was situated near the present Titsey House. It was moved to its present site in 1776., and rebuilt in 1860-61 by Granville Leveson Gower to the design of J.L. Pearson, a Victorian Gothic Revival architect."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Capper, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2008 by Ian Capper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/899365] [accessed 28 March 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St James, nave. Looking east along the nave. There are no side aisles, but a south transept beneath the tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2012 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3165714] [accessed 28 March 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: 19th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2007 by Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 16853TIT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Greater [originally from the old church]
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Pilgrims Lane, Titsey, Surrey RH8 0SE
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located across (N) the M25 from Limpsfield, 9 km NE of Godstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark
Historical Region: Hundred of Tandridge
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album, for his photograph of the modern font
There is an entry for Titsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4054/titsey/] [accessed 28 March 2016]; it reports a church in it. Brayley (1850) reports that the old church was rebuilt in the 14th century, and demolished in the 18th century, with a new church consecrated in 1776, but the old font was retained: "a large, massive, square basin, from the old church". The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "The modern church of St. James takes the place of a church built [...] in 1775–6 when the original building, which stood in the grounds of Titsey Place, was pulled down. It was built in 1861" [no font mentioned in the VCH entry]. The English Heritage entry [Listing NGR: TQ4091354975] (1958) reports a "Square stone font on four squat piers" in the church renovated in 1861 [NB: this is the modern font, probably of the same date -- we have no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.27646,
0.018696
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 16′ 35.26″ N,
0° 1′ 7.31″ E
UTM: 31U 292069 5684791
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-08-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850