Cowfold
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: quatrefoils, floral, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh J Griffiths, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2010 by [www.eimagesite.net/viewimage.cgi?prid=9780;size=0;viewer=images;mbr=en;c=1;frame=St Peter, Cowfold] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: inscribed floral, etc.. around the octagonal lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh J Griffiths, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2010 by [www.eimagesite.net/viewimage.cgi?prid=9780;size=0;viewer=images;mbr=en;c=1;frame=St Peter, Cowfold] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05219COW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: The Street / St. Peter's Close, Cowfold, West Sussex, RH13 8BT
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A272, 3 km E of Wesy Grinstead, 10 km SSE of Horsham, 25 km WNW of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Windham -- Bramber Rape -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1481
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the fonts at Shermanbury and Thakeham, both in Sussex.
Church Notes: "church of ST. PETER, so called in the mid 15th century" [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Perpendicular font which, like those at Shermanbury and Thakeham, have "peculiar roundels on some of the panels, like those on chests of an earlier date". Bond (1908) quotes this one among several examples of recorded entries for expenditures on fonts and/or font covers: "In 1481 at Cowfold, Sussex, vjd. was paid 'pro yre pro ffantae et a loke'". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 3, 1987) notes: "There was apparently a church by 1232 [...] The chancel, [...] was built in the 13th century. [...] The panelled font was paid for in 1481-2, [...] but has been much recut." The VCH entry is footnoted: "S.A.C. ii. 321; it leaked and needed repair in 1638: W.S.R.O., Ep. II/15/1, p. 46." Iin Whiteman (1994). [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.990049, -0.274496
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 24.17″ N, 0° 16′ 28.19″ W
UTM: 30U 691274 5652255
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1481?
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-10-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998