Burwash
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Results: 8 records
B01: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Pelham family (Sir John Pelham)
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B02: symbol - shield - blank
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 8
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view of font and cover
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view of font - miniature font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Burwash/BurwashStBartholomew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Burwash/BurwashStBartholomew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Burwash/BurwashStBartholomew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Burwash/BurwashStBartholomew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01156BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Chruch of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: High Street, Burwash, East Sussex, TN19 7EH
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A265, just SW of Etchingham, 24 km WNW of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period with heraldic ornamentation. Harrison (1920) writes: "The font, Perp[endicular], has a Pelham buckle on it". Drummond-Roberts (1935) notes the badge of Sir John Pelham on the font. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The Perpendicular octagonal font has the Pelham buckle carved on two of its concave sides". Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Burwash/BurwashStBartholomew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]: "The font is octagonal with invected sides (i.e. with a border line of small convex curves). The Pelham family left its mark in Burwash - the font has the "buckle" carved upon it. At the battle of Poitiers, September 19th 1356, John de Pelham seized the French King John by the buckle of his sword belt and the king surrendered his sword to him. In honour of this King Edward III bestowed a buckle to him as a crest. The font itself is likely to be post-reformation." [NB: a miniature font [aka 'portable' font] of octagonal shape exists in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 316797 5652814
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.997697, 0.389075
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 51.71″ N, 0° 23′ 20.67″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with an old locking mechanism
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170, 223
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 80 and fn2
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 19
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 81
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 36-37