Greatham nr. Pulborough / Greatham House / Gretham / Gretheam / Gruteham
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design element - motifs - circle
![ornamentation of raised circles on the lead font at Greatham House [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: ornamentation of raised circles on the lead font at Greatham House [cf. FontNotes]
![ornamentation of raised circles on the lead font at Greatham House [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the parish church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greatham_Church_%28Edited%29.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2013]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font at the parish church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1764418] [accessed 16 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 05289GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: [not in a church]
Church Location: Ham Road, Sidlesham, West Sussex PO20 7PA [the parish church is located Off Brook Lane, Greatham, West Sussex RH20 2ES]
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Greatham House is located in Sidlesham [the church is located 4 km from Pulborough]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Easwrithe
Font Location in Church: [not in a church - cf. Font notes]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Church Notes: the church here is said to date to the 11th or 12th century.
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Greatham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0415/greatham/] [accessed 12 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bond (1908) writes: "There is a square lead font with ornamentation of raised circles on the lawn of Greatham House, Sussex." [ca. 1908; not known whether the font is still there or not]. Twenty years later Tyrrell-Green (1928) reports the same situation. Harrison (1920) reports a small Early English church altered in the 17th century but does not mention a font in it. The font in the parish church appears modern or totally re-cut; it consists of a square basin raised on a quadrangular pedestal base and a lower base of the same shape, all three parts totally plain.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.934, -0.5158
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 2.4″ N, 0° 30′ 56.88″ W
UTM: 30U 674551 5645424
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928