Greatham nr. Pulborough / Greatham House / Gretham / Gretheam / Gruteham

Results: 3 records

view of font and cover

the font at the parish church
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

view of church exterior - southeast view

the parish church
Scene Description: the parish church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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]
Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05289GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Church / Chapel Name: [not in a church]
Font Location in Church: [not in a church - cf. Font notes]
Church Notes: the church here is said to date to the 11th or 12th century.
Church Address: Ham Road, Sidlesham, West Sussex PO20 7PA [the parish church is located Off Brook Lane, Greatham, West Sussex RH20 2ES]
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: recycled font: "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]
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 30U 674551 5645424
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.934, -0.5158
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 2.4″ N, 0° 30′ 56.88″ W

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, p. 87
  • Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 116
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 39