East Horsley / Horslei

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior
INFORMATION
FontID: 16876HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Ockham Road South, East Horsley, Surrey, KT24 6RL
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A246 between Leatherhead and Guildford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Historical Region: Hundred of Woking
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [re-cut] / 18th - 19th century, Medieval? / Modern?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are greatful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for [East] Horsley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0952/east-horsley/] [accessed 17 December 2015], but there is no mention of cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "Much repair and rebuilding has obscured the history of the building, but before 1869 the chancel was of 13th-century date, and the nave, which was not entirely rebuilt, is probably older. The west tower is so covered with plaster that little can be said of its history; it opens to the nave by a modern arch, above which is a blocked pointed arch, presumably of 13th-century date. A third arch, now quite covered up, is said to exist above the pointed arch, and on the strength of this a pre-Conquest date has been claimed for the tower. It would be interesting if any proof could be obtained. [...] All the internal fittings are modern except two Jacobean chairs in the chancel". Like its sister font in West Horsley, the present round tub appears to have been a medieval font greatly altered by the Victorians (?), and is now a bucket-shaped basin with a modern set of trefoiled arch-heads around the sides; on an octagonal stem and a round lower base. The wooden cover is plain, flat and round; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.263932,
-0.431388
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 15′ 50.15″ N,
0° 25′ 53″ W
UTM: 30U 679201 5682310
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-09-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.