Burpham / Bercheham
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view of font and cover
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arthur Mee, 1937
Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk] ; Photograph in Mee (1937)
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1897087] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1897124] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 2 - up-and-down
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1897087] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1897087] [accessed 14 December 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02719BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1400? [Whiteman]
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Burpham, West Sussex BN18 9RH
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A27, about 4 km ENE of Arundel, 12-13 km N of Littlehampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) reports the church originally as Saxon, but the font as Perpendicular. Illustrated in Mee (1937). Whiteman (1998) notes: "The octagonal font, deeply carved on bowl and stem, dates from c.1400". The CRSBI (2008) confirms the "Anglo-Saxon origins" of this church. The font has an octagonal basin with vertical sides, each of the eight framed panels decorated with a quatrefoil window with a rose in the centre; the underbowl is slightly rounded and has floral and (?) motifs on it. The base is octagonal and of two volumes: the stem has vertical sides decorated with alternate motifs of two quatrefoils up-and-down, and a tall trefoil arch on every other side; the lower base is also octagonal and splays out towards the bottom.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paul Zwierzanski for the information on and image of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 674144 5638287
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, with Latin cross finial
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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 80
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Sussex, 1937
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 35-36