Bignor / Bigeneure
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
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Results: 3 records
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 May 2009 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ARendle, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by ARendle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bignor_church.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the new base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2009 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 02715BIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of the Holy Cross
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: Bignor, West Sussex, RH20 1PQ
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 15 km NE of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Brighton, Burton, Penton, etc., in the same county
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period. In Harrison (1920) as early-Norman. Described in Whiteman (1998): "The simple Norman font is tub-shaped, roughly finished". The old basin is now [May 2009] mounted on a modern cylindrical base. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern. Catalogued and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), and compares this basin to those at Selham and Waldren.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 668584 5643995
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 63 - 72 cm*
Basin Total Height: 51 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 120 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, [n.d.]. Accessed: 2013-02-06 00:00:00.
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. Accessed: 2002-12-16 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998