Berwick / Berewice / Berwice

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Harrison (1920) notes "the font, which is built in the wall", but gives no date for it, although he notes that the church is Early English with some Decorated period details. Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1998): "The oldest feature is the font which possibly survives from an earlier church and has the tower wall and pillar of the S[outh] arcade built around part of it". Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Berwick/BerwickStMichael2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]. [NB: the church itself is said to have been built in the mid-12th century, with the font pre-dating it perhaps]. [NB: this one of the few early fonts in Britain to have been built of multiple stones; cf. Index entry for the font at Canterbury St. Martin's, for example, for another such]