Brockham / Brockham Green
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Image and permission received (email of 16 July 2012)
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view of font and cover
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
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: Click to view font notes
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]