Brockham / Brockham Green
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Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: Digital photograph taken 29 June 2012 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3016178]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 16 July 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 18155BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Christ Church
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: The Green, Brockham Green, Surrey, RH3 7JR
Country Name: England
Location: Surrey, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the Mole Valley, 2.5 km E of Dorking, 7 km W of Reigate
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1847?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and modern font
Church Notes: the church here is mid-19th century, and there is no information on an earlier church, although nearby Betchworth Castle was built soon after the Conquest.
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with carved sides separated by columns at angles, raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with foliated motifs, on a round moulded lower base and an octagonal plinth. Probably Victorian, like the church itself. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain; modern. [NB: there is no evidence of an earlier church on this site].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 689477 5679236
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]