Burton / Burton Park / West Burton
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - north side - detail
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view of church exterior - north side - detail
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover on the right (south side)
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the damaged rim, the re-cut lower part of the underbowl and the drain channel cut into the plinth
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02720BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Richard [aka Burton Park Church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Richard
Church Location: Burton Park, Burton, West Sussex
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Duncton, 5 km SSW of Petworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Rotherbridge - Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S side of the nave, by the blocked S doorway
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Bignor, Brighton, Penton, etc., in the same county, are approximately of the same overall shape
Church Notes: A tiny 11th-century [? the present church is probably 15thC] church located in the grounds of Burton Park, a large 19th-century house (Whiteman, 1998)
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of several tub-shaped baptismal fonts of the Norman period in this county. Harrison (1920) notes: "very early font, bowl-shaped on four blocks of stone"; this author dates the herringbone work in the church early-Norman or pre-Conquest. Mentioned in Whiteman (1998): "The plain tub font must be part of the original Norman church". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "A tub font of unidentified stone, with a roll around the rim and a circular, lead-lined basin. The lower part is chamfered in the manner of inverted scallops, eight in all, creating an octagonal base, which now sits on a cruciform pedestal. That stands on a low, irregularly-formed plinth. The tooling of the scallops is noticeably cruder than that of the rest of the font and may be secondary." The Sussex Parish Churches site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/374/33/] [accessed 14 December 2012] notes: "Plain round tub, probably C11. The cruciform base is later and probably when it was added, the bottom of the bowl was cut to form eight sides that fitted it."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.949181, -0.62366
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 57.05″ N, 0° 37′ 25.18″ W
UTM: 30U 666919 5646862
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm*
Basin Total Height: 46 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
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.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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