Lindfield / Lindefeldia
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 20
Scene Description: five per side of the square basin
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, High Street, Lindfield, Mid Sussex District, West Sussex, England. "
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Lindfield, West Sussex, Interior"
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Image Source: digital photograph 26 December 2019 by alexander williams [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints_Church,_Lindfield,_West_Sussex.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2024]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 12
Scene Description: three per side of the square pedestal
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05441LIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Bradfield, Penhurst, Pitminster and Carfax Church, Oxford
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: Early English church (14thC?); restored mid-19thC
Church Address: 126 High St, Lindfield, West Sussex, RH16 2HS, UK
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the NE suburb of Haywards Heath, about 22 km N of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Burarches [or Burleigh Arches] -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812) as a baptismal font "from about the reign of King Henry the Sixth to that of Henry the Eighth" [i.e., 1422-1509+]; the font at Lindfield, continues Repton (ibid.), "from its ornaments, does not appear to be older then the reighn of Henry the Seventh [1485+], or Eighth [1509+]; and is introduced to shew, that a font being square is not always proof of its antiquity, as is generally supposed." Noted in Paley (1844) as one of the few specimens of square font of the Perpendicular period. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the 15th century; later in the same source they list it among the Sussex fonts of the Decorated period [1250-1350]. Described by Bond (1908) as one of a group of "unmounted fonts of the fifteenth century". Harrison (1920) dates the font here to the 15th century, Perpendicular period. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The carved octagonal font dates, unusually from the time of Henry VIII" [1491-1547]. The font is indeed square of basin and base; the basin sides are decorated with an arcade of trefoil arches, five to each side; the underbowl has a double concave chamfer; the sides of the base are decorated with an arcade similar to the one on the basin sides, but with only three arches per side; the inner well of the basin is round. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ3488825850] notes: "Parish church. Mainly c1300 and C14 restored in C19 [...] C14 font with cusped ogee panels and elaborate C19 wooden cover and pulley mechanism."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 704915 5655689
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0162, -0.078444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 0′ 58.32″ N, 0° 4′ 42.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 43, 241
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 165, 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 147
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 20
- Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; p. 336-337 and pl. XL fig. 4
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 100