Mountfield nr. Battle

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Results: 9 records

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: Tudor-period re-carving [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3066918] [accessed 30 January 2013]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: Tudor-period re-carving [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3066922] [accessed 30 January 2013]

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symbol - shell - 3

Scene Description: Tudor-period re-carving [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3066922] [accessed 30 January 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 and/or 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Mountfield/MountfieldAllSaints2004.htm] [accessed 30 January 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font and cover are visible in the foreground (west end), on the right (south) side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is partially visible towards the end of the left (south) bank of benches, at the back (west end)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

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view of font

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Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-mount.html] [accessed 30 January 2013]

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view of font - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3066918] [accessed 30 January 2013]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 and/or 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Mountfield/MountfieldAllSaints2004.htm] [accessed 30 January 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01182MOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Rd, Mountfield, East Sussex,
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A2100, 6 km N of Battle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Netherfield -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font [re-carved]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum], for his photographs of this church and font
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy circular baptismal font of the Norman period. Walker (1908) has it as a tub-shaped Norman font re-carved at a later date. Harrison (1920) notes: "the old font with later work carved on it—Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis, etc." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The large, circular font is also Norman with later decoration (fleur-de-lis, foliage and shells) carved in the 16th century". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "This is thought to be a 12thc. tub font which was re-carved in the late medieval period. At present it is lifted off the floor by small stone blocks. The interior is circular and lead lined. Heavy roll mouldings at the top and botton of the 'tub' are possibly 12thc., but the rest of the carving (eight motifs, such as leaves and shells, in square frames over a band of billet) is later. Due to a limewash coating the stone could not be definitely identified, but it is probably local sandstone."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.955569, 0.46865
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 20.05″ N, 0° 28′ 7.14″ E
UTM: 31U 322218 5647935

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 14 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*
Basin Total Height: 68 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CSBI (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; with metal ornament and ring handle

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, [n.d.]. Accessed: 2013-01-30 00:00:00.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998