Denton in Newhaven

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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: Thin rope moulding.

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: a narrow band of mixed motifs, all round: roundels, balls, floral, etc.

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design element - patterns - lattice pattern

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view of basin - east side

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: the hanging objects in the background are the end tips of the bell ropes

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01044DEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Heighton Rd, Denton, East Sussex, BN9 0RB

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South West

Directions to Site: Located in the eastern suburbs of Newhaven, 15 kms E of Brighton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: The ornamentation on this font is similar to the one at Lewes St. Anne's [cf. Index entry and images for Lewes No. 1]. Also similar, but with a different interlace pattern is the reconstructed font at East Dean No. 1, also in East Sussex

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Gough (1792). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an ancient and richly sculptured font" in this church. Hussey (1852) notes: "The font, as to shape and decoration, precisely resembles that of St. Anne's, Lewes, but is smaller." The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July-Dec., 1856, p. 607) notes, after Hussey: "The font, which stronly resembles that of St. Anne's, Lewes, in its basket-like form and ornamentation, is well-known to ecclesiologists and is engraved in Horsfield" [NB: this is a reference to T.W. Horsfield, either in his 'History of Lewes' (1824), or in 'The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (1835) -- to be followed up]. Cox & Harvey (1907) write: "font, illustrated in the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, vol. xi., has the circular bowl sculptured throughout with an interwowen basket-work pattern"; they describe it -and its sister font at Lewes St. Anne's- as "handsomely carved" (ibid.) and list it as a Norman font (ibid.) Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) in a "small group of tub-shaped fonts with [...] ornament of interlacing diagonal strands, resembling basketwork", of the Norman period in Sussex (the group includes: Lewes St. Anne's, Denton and East Dean). Noted in Drummond-Roberts (1929). Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994); their image shows a tub-shaped baptismal font, looking much like a barrel, with a lattice pattern framed by a band of ball motif at the upper basin side and a braid at the bottom; it is covered with a flat wooden lid topped with a knob finial [the font at Lewes is cylindrical]. The CRSBI (2008) illustrates the font and corroborates its similarity with the font at Lewes St. Anne's and the fragment -and reconstructed font- at East Dean No.1.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.804535, 0.06241

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 16.33″ N, 0° 3′ 44.68″ E

UTM: 31U 293024 5632202

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 51.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 69.07 cm [calculated from 2.17 m* circ.]

Basin Total Height: 61 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)] [accessed 20 July 2006]]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with carved and inscribed top; floriated finial

REFERENCES

Cave, D.C.A, A Short History of Sidbury Church, 1930

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2007-03-18 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Sussex, 1937

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998