Tangmere / Tangemere

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718499] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: EXT digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718469] [accessed 25 September 2012] INT WEST digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718648] [accessed 25 September 2012] INT EAST digital photograph taken 18 July 2007 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Tangmere/Tangmere-St-Andrew.htm] [accessed 25 September 2012] FONT +Cover digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718499] [accessed 25 September 2012] FONT digital photograph taken 18 July 2007 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Tangmere/Tangmere-St-Andrew.htm] [accessed 25 September 2012] FONT SouthEast CRSBI B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-tangm.html] [accessed 25 September 2012]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718469] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2007 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Tangmere/Tangmere-St-Andrew.htm] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the west end, behind the left (south) bank of benches

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908: 30)

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view of font

Image Source: drawing in Pike (1989: 7)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2007 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Tangmere/Tangmere-St-Andrew.htm] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01046TAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Tangmere, West Sussex, PO20

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located 5 km NE of Chichester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Aldwick - Rape of Chichester - Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SW end of the nave, just inside the S entranceway

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a Norman font" in this church. Bond (1908) states that "of the stone and lead fonts that have come down to us from Norman or pre-Conquest days the earliest type is that of the unmounted tub-shaped font, such as that of Tangmere." With respect to the dating of this font, Bond (ibid.) writes: "we must reserve judgment; certainly we have no right to insist that they are Norman." [NB: Bond spells the name both 'Tangemere' and 'Tangmere']. The font has the shape of a beaker, narrower at the bottom and with a round moulding at the upper rim; it appears to be cemented to a wider circular plinth that looks contemporary with the basin. Harrison (1920) reports a font, possibly Norman, topped by an old cover. Tyrrell-Green (1928) refers to it as "undoubtedly Norman" and compares its shape to that of the [probably later] wooden font at Efenechtyd in Wales [cf. Index entry]. Illustrated in a drawing by Pike (1989). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The 11th-century church, which is mentioned in Domesday Book, consisted of the present nave and a chancel; the latter was enlarged to its present dimensions in the 13th century; the bell-cote is of unknown, but ancient, date [...] The font is of the 12th century, of the shape of a modern flower pot; the cover is of oak, with a central standard and S-shaped volutes, of the 17th century." Described in Whiteman (1994): "In the nave [...] is the plain tub-shaped font, one of the oldest in Sussex". Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "Remains of staples in rim to NW and repair diametrically opposite to SE."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.848, -0.7201

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 50′ 52.8″ N, 0° 43′ 12.36″ W

UTM: 30U 660493 5635399

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm*

Basin Total Height: 61 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 76 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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: 2012-09-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920

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

Pike, Joan H.K., "Medieval Fonts of Ireland", [Supplied courtesy of The Dept. of the History of Art, Trinity College, Dublin], [Ireland]: [Privately printed], 1989

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