Poynings / Poninges / Ponynges / Punninges
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 January 2004 in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Poynings/PoyningsHolyTrinity.htm] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: One on each side of the basin
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 January 2004 in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Poynings/PoyningsHolyTrinity.htm] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east towards the altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 January 2004 in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Poynings/PoyningsHolyTrinity.htm] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover visible at the west end, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 January 2004 in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Poynings/PoyningsHolyTrinity.htm] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03460POY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1370-1380?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, equidistant between the N and S doors
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Cora's Walk, Poynings, West Sussex BN45 7AJ
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) of the A23, 9 kms NNW of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred pf Poynings -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here) -- [NB: name of the town is pronounced Punnings]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Paley (1844): octagonal unmounted font of the late 14th century, plain except for a deep-relief Ogee arch on each side of the basin, very much resembling a window. The one-step plinth is round. "Although in general appearance this Font has much of Decorated character about it, yet we consider it from the mouldings, a specimen of Transition from that style to Perpendicular". Paley's source, the then (ca. 1844) rector, rev. S. Holland, informed that Michael Lord Poynings [† 1369] and Joan, his wife, who died soon thereafter, "left each the sum of two hundred marks for building a new church" (ibid.). "The Font therefore" -continues Paley- "was most probably erected at the same time, being the period when the Perpendicular style was first coming into use, though still retaining something of Decorated character" (ibid.) In Hussey (1852): "The font is an octagonal column of sandstone with trefoiled-headed panels worked in the sides." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a tub-shaped form with eight panelled faces" of the Decorated period. The wooden cover in Jacobean style illustrated in Bond (1908) is probably 17th or 18th century. In Harrison (1920): "Font, octagonal, with trefoil-headed panels (Perp[endicular]). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The parish church [...] is mentioned in Domesday Book [...] The building was practically entirely reconstructed by Thomas de Poynings and his brother Richard about 1370, and remains to-day very much as left by them. [...] The font is of unusual form, being a plain octagonal prism with trefoiled ogee-headed panels around the base but a perfectly plain upper part." The plan of the church interior in the VCH entry for this parish shows the font located towards the west side of the nave, centred between the north and south (blocked) entranceways.
Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994).
Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/] for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 696657 5641804
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.89437, -0.203522
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 53′ 39.73″ N, 0° 12′ 12.68″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: octagonal, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 72.5 cm
Basin Depth: 26.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844, unpaged)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with eight scroll-ribs around a pivot top; fleuron finial
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 43, 231 and ill. on p. 236
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 164
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 270
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, [unpaged]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 19, 92
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 125