Burpham / Bercheham

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design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled

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 - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - 8

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 - motifs - quatrefoil - 2 - up-and-down

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

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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view of font

Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk] ; Photograph in Mee (1937)

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view of font and cover

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 02719BUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Burpham, West Sussex BN18 9RH

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

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 Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1400? [Whiteman]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paul Zwierzanski for the information on and image of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

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. Accessed: 2012-12-14 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Sussex, 1937

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998