Rotherfield nr. Tunbridge Wells No. 2

Results: 3 records

LID01: inscription

Scene Description: with the date 1533

LID02: coat of arms - George Nevill

Scene Description: Described as "Lord of the Manor" ca. 1533 in Whiteman (1994: 131)

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph from Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 03440ROT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Denys
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Location: Church Road, Rotherfield, East Sussex, TN6 3LG
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the High Weald, just E of Crowborough, 11 km from Tunbridge Wells, 25 km ENN of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Rotherfield -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Date: 1533 [font cover only]
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Late Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: The font covers at Ticehurst and Sedlescombe
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for the photograph of the font cover.
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 223) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The details supplied by Bond (1908) refer more to the cover than to the font itself. He lists this font cover among the Jacobean, post-Reformation, lids on the evidence that it "bears the date 1533 on one of the panels of the canopy" and the entry in the church warden's account book dated for "the yer of owr lord MCCCCCXXXII [...to] MCCCCCXXXV [...] Item receyved of diverse persons to the tabernacle [i.e., cover] of the fonte iij li" and two other contributions for the same purpose (Bond, p. 291). Bond's comment on the detail of the font cover, right after that quote, "it is of Pre-Reformation date" appears to contradict his earlier statement dating the font cover to the Post-Reformation (cf. Bond, op. cit., p. 289). The font cover is also described in Whiteman (1994: 131): "An octagonal font cover, dated 1533, has the carved coat of arms of George Nevill, then the Lord of the Manor". [We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for the photograph of the font cover]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 305112 5657951

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1533
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998