Ash No. 1 / Ash by Henley

INFORMATION

FontID: 16868ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Ash Church Road, Ash, Surrey, GU12 6LU
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Aldershot, 65 kms SE of London, on the Surrey/Hampshire border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Woking
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
No entry found for this Ash in the Domesday survey. Allen (1831) reports a square font at the west end of the nave. Brayley (1841) reports a font inside the church: "The font is a plain square stone, standing on wooden pillars". The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "The older part of the church has been a good deal repaired, but has been an aisleless building of nave and chancel of 12th-century date, the tower, built of Heath stone, being a 15th-century addition. The earliest details are in the south door and a lancet in the old chancel, both of early 13th-century date, and in the new north wall of the nave is reset a small 12th-century roundheaded light, much repaired [...] The south door dates from c. 1200 [...] The font is of wood, as at Chobham in this neighbourhood, probably of 17th-century date, the bowl octagonal, cut from one piece and lined with lead; there is a central stem with eight octagonal detached shafts." [NB: we have no other source on this font; the font is no longer in the church; disappeared?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.24914, -0.715474
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 14′ 56.9″ N, 0° 42′ 55.7″ W
UTM: 30U 659435 5680010

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-12-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Allen, Thomas, A History of the County of Surrey ; comprising every object of topographical, geological, or historical interest, London: Isaac Taylor Hinton, 1831
Brayley, Edward Westlake, A topographical history of Surrey, Dorking; London: Robert Best Ede; Tilt and Bogue, 1841