Amberley
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI (2008) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-amber.html] [accessed 13 December 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02707AMB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, against a pillar of the S arcade, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Church Street, Amberley, West Sussex BN18 9ND
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the B2139, 7-8 km NNE of Arundel, 15 km N of Littlehampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Susssex
Additional Comments: altered font? restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Harrison (1920) notes a restored baptismal font originally of the late-Norman period. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early square basin mounted on a broad central column and four slender corner colonnettes, and ornamented with a blind arcade around the sides. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (ibid.) with a group of Norman-period fonts on which "the arcading is rather rudely represented by a succession of shallow sunk panels with semicircular heads [...] the only adornment" of the basin. Whiteman (1998) writes: "The Norman font is square with shallow arcading". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), which reports: "a square Sussex marble font with upright sides, each carved with four round-headed arches. The lower edge is chamfered. There are various cracks and inserts on the bowl, which is damaged to N and E. The bowl rests directly on a modern slab, which is upheld by a thick central shaft (containing the drain) and four angle shafts. These are modern, and have no capitals or bases. The two superimposed chamfered plinths are also modern."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 673365 5642544
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.90848, -0.53404
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 54′ 30.53″ N, 0° 32′ 2.54″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Basin Total Height: 34 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 73 x 74 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 51
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 75
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 13