Iford / Hyford / Iuorda / Niworde
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BBU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photographed taken 2002 by Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.com]
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: several, at the upper and lower ends of the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Zwierzanski, 2002
Image Source: digital photographed taken 2002 by Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Zwierzanski, 2002
Image Source: digital photographed taken 2002 by Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.com]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Zwierzanski, 2002
Image Source: digital photographed taken 2002 by Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05420IFO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [re-tooled], Early English [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Iford, East Sussex BN7 3EN
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km S of Lewes, about 13 km ENE of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Swanborough -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font? re-tooled
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a hemispheric mounted baptismal font of the 13th century; the rounded basin is plain but for a roll moulding at the upper rim side. The base consists of a broad round central pedestal and four outer colonnettes; the five are plain except for nouldings at top and bottom; the whole is raised on a cylindrical plinth, also plain. Harrison (1920) reports an Early English font in this church. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The 'Niworde' of Domesday possessed a church [...] The nave and original chancel appear to date from the early or middle 12th century. The present chancel was added at the very end of the same century, when the tower was built and a north aisle added to the nave. The north chapel dates from the end of the 13th century [...] The building was restored in 1868 [...] The church was again restored in 1874 [...] The font has a central shaft and four surrounding shafts, supporting a bowl which shows rusticated tooling and appears to have been refaced in the 17th century. The base is circular and modern, but the simple Attic bases of the surrounding shafts show the 13th-century origin of this font." Illustrated in Needham (1944). Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "a fine Early English font, bowl-shaped on a circular column and four supporting shafts". Noted in the CRSBI (2008) as one in a group of "fonts with moulded capitals which form part of a square bowl"; the CRSBI includes in this group the fonts at Cuckfield, Heyshott, Iford, Ripe, Slindon, West Hoathley and Woodmancote". The Sussex Parish Churches web site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/200/34/] [accessed 30 October 2012] adds the font of Rottingdean as cognate.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paul Zwierzanski, of www.yeoldesussexpages.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 288835 5637258
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.848429, 0.000133
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 54.34″ N, 0° 0′ 0.48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 209, 225 and ill. on p. 223
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 136
- Neeham, Albert, How to study an old church, London: Batsford, 1944, pl. X
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 89, 90