Guildford No. 2 / Gildeford / Guldforde

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2007 by John Armagh [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HolyTrinityGuildford.jpg] [accessed 22 August 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

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view of church interior - detail

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font seen here on the left

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Scene Description: the modern font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16867GUI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy [and Univided] Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: High Street, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3HP

Country Name: England

Location: Surrey, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the S side of High Street

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford [formerly in the Diocese of Winchester]

Historical Region: Hundred of Woking

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the church and modern font here

Church Notes: earliest chapel may have existed here ca. 1200; medieval church collapsed in 1740; new church built in same site

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There are seven entries for Guildford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9949/guildford/] [accessed 22 August 2015] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Brayley (1841) notes that the old church, "an ancient structure, which was becoming decayed" was repaired in 1739, but collapsed in 1740; a new church was built and open for worship on 18 September 1763; the font is noted: "a small font of white marble". Brayley (ibid.) includes part of the churchwardens accounts for the year 1512, among which is an expense for new wax used for the font taper and Pascal candle. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The old church fell down in 1740 owing to the arches under the tower having been taken away to improve its acoustic properties when the church was repaired in the previous year. The present building, which was erected on the old site (i.e. on the extreme edge of the ancient town) in 1749–63, consists of an apsidal chancel with north and south chapels and a wide aisleless nave with a tower and porches at the west end and a south-west vestry. It is partly modelled upon St. Katherine Coleman, Fenchurch Street. [...] The fragments in the porch under the tower include 12th-century scalloped capitals and mouldings of 13th and 14th-century dates. [...] In 1910 the northwest porch was converted into a baptistery, and an alabaster font has been erected in it." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SU9988149499] (1953) notes: "Font in octagonal baptistry with panelled ceiling to south west corner, adjacent to the tower. Rich Baroque style with red marble bowl on centre stem decorated with cherubs heads and acanthus leafs; domed and composite-columned font cover above." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font, which may have been destroyed in the collapse of the old church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.235929, -0.570753

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 14′ 9.34″ N, 0° 34′ 14.71″ W

UTM: 30U 669582 5678866

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-12-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Brayley, Edward Westlake, A topographical history of Surrey, Dorking; London: Robert Best Ede; Tilt and Bogue, 1841