Chilworth No. 2 / Celeorde / Cheleworth / St. Martha / St. Martha and Holy Martyrs / St. Martha on the Hill / Marters Hill / Martyr's Hill / Martha Hill
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 6 March 2016)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the re-tooled font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 6 March 2016)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the re-tooling is probably Victorian
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2010 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the tower is over the crossing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Kemp, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2006 by David Kemp
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the tower is over the crossing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2010 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16963CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martha [aka St. Matha's Chapel / St. Mary?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the S side of the nave, just W of the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martha
Church Notes: "Although called a chapel, it seems always to have possessed the rights of a parish church; and it is probably to be identified with one of the three churches mentioned in Domesday as standing on the manor of Bramley, then held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who may well have built the original of the present building. The site itself is an extremely ancient one, and several circular earthworks still remain on St. Martha's Hill." (source: VCH)
Church Address: Halfpenny Lane, Chilworth, Surrey, GU4 8PY
Site Location: Surrey, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Albury, 5 km SE of Guilford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Additional Comments: discarded font / disused font -- re-tooled font?
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History entry for Chilworth, Surrey " (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes the early font which may possibly have been originally from Elstead: "There is reason to believe that the barrel-shaped font, of sandstone, is the one described by Manning and Bray as at Elstead Church, whence it had disappeared before 1845. The St. Martha's font was brought 'from another church,' where it had been thrown out into the churchyard in 1849, and the carving added on the spot. The original was early Norman, like that at Thursley. [footnoted: Information of the late Rev. J. R. Charlsworth and of the late Mr. H. Woodyer.]" [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the original font from Chilworth]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 672537 5677702
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.224588, -0.529036
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 13′ 28.52″ N, 0° 31′ 44.53″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.