Bishopstone / Bishopstone nr. Newhaven
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2871872] [accessed 13 December 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2872297] [accessed 13 December 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 02717BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Bishopstone Road, Bishopstone, East Sussex, BN25 2UD
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located just E of Newhaven
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the tower arch
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907) and Harrison (1920) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Drummond-Roberts (1935). Whiteman (1998) describes it as a massive square font dating from the 12th century. The CRSBI (2008) entry for this church notes: "The large square stone font is said to date from the 12thc., but was not recorded. It stands on five shafts, a fat central shaft and four smaller angle shafts. These in turn stand on three superimposed square plinths or steps." [NB: there is no photograph of the font in the CRSBI entry for this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 294786 5630398
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, low-pyramidal shape; appears modern
REFERENCES
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: 2010-02-20 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998