Boxgrove / Bosgrave

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8

Scene Description: one on each panel of the stem

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the lower stem

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: the ruins of the old priory

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02463BOX
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St Blaise (formerly the church of the Benedictine Priory at Boxgrove)
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Blaise [aka Blaize]
Church Location: Church Lane, Boxgrove, West Sussex, PO18 0ED
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A27, 5 km NE of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Box and Stockbridge -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Harrison (1920) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Harrison (ibid.) notes also a stoup in the Decorated-period south porch. Mentioned in Bond (1908) [NB: Bond's (ibid.) mention of Boxgrove is probably not of the font itself, but of its piers]. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The church mentioned in Domesday Book [...] seems to have been collegiate; but no remains of that date exist, though the absence of a north aisle next to the cloisters suggests that an un-aisled pre-Conquest nave may have formed part of the original priory church. [...] The registers begin in 1561." There VCH entry makes no mention of a font in this church. A font here is illustrated in Cook & Smith (1960). Illustrated in Hignett ([s.d.]: p. 1). Listed in Werner (1977). Octagonal mounted baptismal font; the octagonal bowl has each side decorated with a large quatrefoil in a circle, at the centre of which is a blank shield; the basin tapers off to meet the wide octagonal base, each side of which has a blind trefoiled arch or window; below, a plain quatrefoil motif similar on each side. The whole rests on an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. Flat and plain wooden octagonal cover; appears modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 660978 5636669

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cook, Olive, English Abbeys and Priories, London: Thames and Hudson, 1960
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Hignett, Harold W.G., Boxgrove Priory, Boxgrove: Parochial Church Council, [s.d.]
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998