Buxted / Buxtead
Image copyright © John & Annette Rose, 2005
Image and permission received from Derek Miller (e-mail of 22 Feb 2010)
Results: 3 records
B01:
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches
Scene Description: Three per side plus one at each rounded corner of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John & Annette Rose, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 February 2005 by John & Annette Rose, for Derek Miller
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Derek Miller (e-mail of 22 Feb 2010)
UB01:
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4
Scene Description: the central shaft has neither capital nor base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John & Annette Rose, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 February 2005 by John & Annette Rose, for Derek Miller
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Derek Miller (e-mail of 22 Feb 2010)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John & Annette Rose, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2005 by John & Annette Rose, for Derek Miller
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Derek Miller (e-mail of 22 Feb 2010)
INFORMATION
FontID: 05170BUX
Church/Chapel: Parish Chuch of St. Margaret the Queen
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Scotland
Church Location: Buxted, East Sussex, TN22 4AY
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A272, 20-25 kms NE of Lewes -- the church is a distance from the village, as the old village around the church was abandoned through pressure from the mannor]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Loxfield Camden -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Derek Miller, and to John and Annette Rose, for the photograph of this font
Hussey (1852) writes: "The font is square, resting on five columns, of the same style as the church" [which Hussey dates as "generally E.E."] Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period [NB: C&H use the form "Buxtead"]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a square mounted font of the 13th century made of marble (?); the basin angles are rounded and the basin sides have a blind arcade of 16 trefoil arches -three per side plus one at each corner. The basin is raised on four corner colonnettes, themselves resting on a square lower base and plinth. Bond's illustration (ibid.) shows a round wooden font cover with a Greek pattee cross finial. In Harrison (1920) as Early English. Described in Whiteman (1994) as an "Early English font [ornamented with] arcading and rounded corners".
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
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
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
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
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998
