Berwick / Berewice / Berwice
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Berwick/BerwickStMichael2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Berwick/BerwickStMichael2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02714BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall-mounted, tower wall
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Berwick Village, Berwick, East Sussex, BN26 6SR
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A27, 5 km W of Polegate, halfway between Eastbourne and Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 299303 5634792
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: multiple stones
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and handle
REFERENCES
- 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. 62
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 24 with ill.