Yapton
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 9
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1245797] [accessed 12 October 2012]
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design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: note the change of direction of the chevron motif on the left side
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symbol - cross - processional cross
Scene Description: in the arches on the basin sides
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2005
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1998
Image Source: The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/crsbi/search/county/site/ed-sx-yapto.html] [accessed 12 October 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01048YAP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Road, Yapton, West Sussex BN18 0EW
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the B2132 and the B2233, SW of Arundel, about 18 km E of Bognor Regis (access: follow the A27 east from BR to the right turn onto the B2132 and continue on this to Yapton)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, N side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early Norman / Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Alfold is similarly shaped and ornamented. Somewhat alike the basin of the font at West Thorney
Noted in Hussey (1852) "The font is circular, without a stem, and has round arches on the sides (Cartwright's Dallaway)". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of several tub-shaped baptismal fonts of the Norman period in this county. Harrison (1920) notes: "Font, (pre-Conquest ?), has sword-shaped crosses under circular arches." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period; the basin sides are ornamented with an arcade that houses crosses in its arches. The baptismal font at Alfold, Surrey [cf. Index entry], has the same crosses and arcade ornamentation and the same tub shape. [NB: the Chapelbooks guide to Yapton and its church describes the font as Saxon]. Whiteman (1994) describes it as "an exceptional font, early Norman, tub-shaped and made of a freshwater limestone. It is decorated in shallow relief with eight round-headed arches in each of which is a long sword-like cross, the rim finished with a band of chevrons". The font stands on a circular plinth. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) notes: "There was apparently a church at Yapton in 1086 [...] The tower and the arcades are of c. 1200 [...] The font, on a circular base, is 11th- or 12th-century; its cylindrical bowl of Sussex marble has continuous arcading with a swordshaped cross in each opening, and a chevron frieze above". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) where the material is identified as "Shelly limestone" and the date given as probably of the mid-12th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.822674,
-0.602963
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 49′ 21.62″ N,
0° 36′ 10.67″ W
UTM: 30U 668830 5632844
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (freshwater limestone)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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: 2005-03-19 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
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
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
