Albourne

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Scene Description: NB: the arch itself is a copy of the 12thC original; some of the stones of the original chancel walls have been incorporated into the churchyard wall, according to the VCH entry [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2012 by Nick Macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2773802] [accessed 30 October 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02706ALB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Church Lane, Albourne, West Sussex, BN6 9BY
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Hassocks
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tipnoak -- Rape of Bamber - Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: "church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW (the dedication is recorded from 1442)" [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 3, 1987) notes: "Architectural evidence indicates a church at Albourne by the 12th century. [...] The chancel walls are late 11th- or early 12thcentury; the south chancel window is of that period, and a matching north window existed in 1851 [...] It was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. [...] The plain octagonal font is medieval". Noted in Whiteman (1998): "The medieval font, a plain octagonal bowl and stem, stands on a large slab of Sussex marble".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.93133, -0.21274
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 52.79″ N, 0° 12′ 45.86″ W
UTM: 30U 695854 5645888

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-10-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998