Mountfield nr. Battle
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view of font - upper view
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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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symbol - shell - 3
![Tudor-period re-carving [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130409011_compressed.png)
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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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: Tudor-period re-carving [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: Tudor-period re-carving [cf. FontNotes]
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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 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
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
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 font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01182MOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font [re-carved]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Rd, Mountfield, East Sussex,
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font: Norman font re-carved in the Tudor period [late-15thC through early-17thC]
Font Notes:
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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."
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 322218 5647935
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.955569, 0.46865
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 20.05″ N, 0° 28′ 7.14″ E
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.].
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 222
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 153
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 153
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 60
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 108