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Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908: 49)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - beaded-tape
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1998
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI (2008) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-binst.html] [accessed 25 September 2012]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1998
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI (2008) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-binst.html] [accessed 25 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02716BIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Somewhat similar, though less richly ornamented, to the font at Tortington.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, N side of the aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Binsted Lane, Walberton, West Sussex BN18 0LN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1243 551635
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A27, 4 km WSW of Arundel
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Bond (1908). Harrison (1920) reports a "curious font" of the 12th century in this church. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font the basin of which is decorated with an "arcade in relief, imitating closely the structural arcade of the period". Noted in the Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997): "Binsted church existed in the mid 12th century. [...] The main structure is of the earlier or mid 12th century and three windows of that date remain. [...] The arcaded circular stone font, projecting slightly over its thick, round pedestal [is] 12th-century". The font consists of rather small basin roughly hemispherical in shape, the sides decorated with a blind arcade of pearled round arches resting on double columns and a roll moulding where the underbowl meets the cylindrical stem; the latter has two more such mouldings near the bottom; the rim appears damaged in at least two places [probably through the removal of the staples of the cover]. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with suggested date in the late 12th century. Described in Whiteman (1998): "The Norman font is bowl-shaped and ornamented with carved arcading".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 668526 5635361
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.845377, -0.606106
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 43.36″ N, 0° 36′ 21.98″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 49.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 44 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring-handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 47, 159, 155 and il. on p. 49
- 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.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 64
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 76
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 121
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, [?]
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 26 (ill.), 27