Ashurst / Ashurt nr. Henfield
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02710ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: Buxted [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Church Lane, Ashurst, West Sussex BN44 3AR
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B2135, 3 kmt W of Henfield, N of Steyning, 12-14 km N of Worthing, 18 km S of Horsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of West Grinstead -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: the incised arcade is of a later date than the font; the font itself may have been re-carved or re-tooled as well
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Walker (1908). Harrison (1920) reports a "Square font, with arcade" of the Early English period in this church. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early baptismal font consisting of a square basin mounted on a broad central column and four outer colonnettes. In Drummond-Roberts (1935). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 2, 1986) notes: "The church at Ashurst, begun before 1200, [...] remained a chapel of Steyning parish [...] until the 16th century. [...] Most internal fittings are 19th-century, but the font has a square 13th-century bowl of Sussex marble decorated with arcading on one side and carried on five columns." Whiteman (1998) writes: "The 13th-century font has a square bowl incised with pointed arcading on one side". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), which notes: "The font was found embedded in an internal buttress. Although it may be 12thc. in origin, the carved arcade is Gothic, and probably dates from 13thc. The arcade is notionally formed, however, from intersecting round-headed arches. The similar font at Buxted is carved with pointed arches enclosing trefoil tracery)".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 687758 5645905
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.934168, -0.3278
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 3.01″ N, 0° 19′ 40.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 46.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 96 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 56 x 56 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 7
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 56
- Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965, p. 95
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 87
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 18