Ford nr. Littlehampton

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view of church - elevation

Scene Description: note the positon of the [recently restored?] font

Image Source: 1899 drawing in Johnston (1900)

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2008 by Charlesdrakew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_Church.JPG] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: 1899 drawing in Johnston (1900)

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1652490] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: note the position of the [recently restored?] font

Image Source: 1899 drawing in Johnston (1900)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1242864] [accessed September 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/ford/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the medieval basin,now restored, mounted on a new pedestal base and furnished with a locking font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 December 2008 by Chris Partridge [http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: a modern font in this church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 December 2008 by Chris Partridge [http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the left hasp visible here; its anchorage area on the side of the basin has been much repaired, as has been the whole basin; the pedestal and lower base are modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1650975] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the locking mechanism of the cover

Image Source: from an illustration in Needham (1944)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05275FOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [aka St. Andrew-by-the-ford]

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Ford Rd/Ford Lane, Ford, West Sussex,

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located just NW of Littlehampton, 3 km SW of Arundel, about 25 km E of Chichester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only - restored], Pre-Conquest? / Norman? [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Partridge, of http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com, for his photographs of both fonts. We are also grateful to Martin B. Snow, of www.sussexchurches.co.uk, for the transcriptions of Johnston's article.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is square and rude." In Johnston (1900): " The font, shown in the late Mr. J. P. Andre's sketch and in Fig. 6, has had a chequered history. The bowl, the only part- ancient, of blue-grey limestone, probably imported from the Low Countries, is, from its rudeness and entire absence of ornament, as likely as not of the same date as the N. and W. walls of the nave. It was rescued by the late Rector, the Rev. Geo. Jackson, from a neighbouring farmyard, where it was searing as a bath for the ducks (haying been turned out of the church in the 1865 restoration), and restored to its sacred purpose, being mounted upon a diagonally-placed block of Bath stone." Mentioned in Bond (1908): "the font cover is still padlocked". Harrison (1920) notes: "Bowl of font, square, Sax[on] or Nor[man]." Drummond-Roberts (1935) reports it having been used as a bird bath. Described in Whiteman (1994): "a square font, possibly Saxon, with cover and lock". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) notes: "The church of St. Andrew, so called by 1501 [,,,] The nave is probably late 11th-century and has two small windows of that date in the north wall, the eastern one much restored. [...] The font has a large plain square limestone bowl of possibly 12th-century date." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) where reference is made to a note in the church: "[it] mentions that the font, which is thought to be Saxon but could be Norman, was thrown out in 1865, but recovered from a farmyard in 1899, and mounted on a block of Bath stone. [NB: a sketch of the church interior in Johnston (1900) dated 1864 shows the font still in place inside the church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 670415 5633069

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Basin Total Height: 46.5 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 62 x 60 x 60.5 x 59 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2006-07-20 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935

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

Johnston, Philip Mainwaring, "Ford and its church", 43, Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county, 1900

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998