Barsham No. 1 / Bersham

There are five entries for Barsham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3989/barsham/] [accessed 10 February 2023]; one of the entries reports "0.5 churches, 016 church lands" in it. Bond (1908) describes only the font cover -without a word about the font itself- as one of a common late type "brought from Ellingham in 1892", which "consists of an octagonal lid, molded on the edge, which bears eight radiating trusses, rising from the angles and meeting at the head of a central baluster-shaped post, just below the finial, roughly suggesting a crown." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font that had been cast out of the church, later restored to the church but no longer used for baptism; it is decorated with floral and zigzag motifs. The font reported by Tyrrell-Green above is probably a quadrangular Norman bowl which, as reported in Knott (2008), was found under the chapel floorboards ca. 1900 by Frederick Eden, one of the assistants to Charles Kempe, the architect responsible of the restoration of this church at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th; this font is now situated next to the Etchingham tomb [Knott [cf. supra] notes that the other assistant to Kempe was the then young Ninian Comper]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble , "bowl with zig-zag aptterns on faces; it is disused" [gives Pevsner's Suffolk, 1961 as source]