Elstead No. 2 / Helestede

INFORMATION

FontID: 16964ELS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Westbrook Hill, Elstead, Surrey, GU8 6LQ
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A3
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Guildford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1845?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid), Victorian
The Parish web site [http://www.elstead.org.uk/anglican/stjhistory.htm] [accessed 15 October 2010] notes: "1845. Restoration of the Church. The present font was given by Bishop Summer of Winchester. [Till then baptism was administered from a glass bowl placed on the Altar. The medieval font is now lost.] 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."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 660091 5671223

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-10-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.