Etchingham / Echingham / Echyngham
Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: all around the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at top and bottom
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of church interior - choir - stalls - misericords
Scene Description: one of the misericords in this church: a fox-like priest preaches to six geese
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7th February 2004 & 22nd January 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/Etchingham2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3009175] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05250ETC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicolas [aka The Assumption and St. Nicolas]
Church Patron Saints: [The Assumption of?] St. Mary & St. Nicholas
Church Location: High Street, Etchingham, East Sussex,
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located about 20 km WNW of Hastings; take the A21 to Hurst Green; veer W on the A265 (dir. Heathfield); Etchingham is about 2 km down that road)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1287?
Century and Period: 13th century (late), Early English? / Decorated?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: noteworthy misericords in this church [cf. www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Etchingham/EtchinghamMisericords2006.htm for some views of them] [accessed 27 March 2013]
Font Notes:
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The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July-Dec, 1856: p. 230) reports a visit on the 10th of July by members of the Sussex Archaeological Society to this church and states that "the font is older than the present church, and is Early English". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Decorated period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908): hexagonal [cf. infra] baptismal font of the late 13th century ("The capitals at Etchingham [...] are c. 1287, when the founder of the church died." Ibid.). Despite Bond's claim the basin is octagonal, not hexagonal; the underbowl has some foliage ornamentation on it; the base consists of a cluster of eight engaged columns, the whole almost as wide as the basin, which gives the font a heavy appearance; the lower base is plain and also octagonal; on a polygonal plinth with kneeling stone. The font is noted in Harrison (1920) as 13th-century, early-Decorated.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 319677 5652969
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration; appears modern (19thC?)
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