Newick / Newik / Newyke / Niewica / Niwica
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2885878] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 12 arches - trefoiled arches
![re-carved? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0051030036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: re-carved? [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oast House Archive, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken16 July 2009 -- in the Oast House Archive [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1403058] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: aisle digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2885862] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05481NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basen only] -- 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Rd, Newick, East Sussex, BN8 4JZ
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A272, 8 km W of Uckfield, 13 km N of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Barcombe -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font? composite font? re-carved basin? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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No entry for Newick found in the Domesday survey. Paley (1844) notes this as one of the few square fonts of the Decorated period. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a square baptismal font of the 14th century. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a square basin mounted on a cluster of engaged columns (one broad central pedestal and four corner colonnettes), a square lower base and a square plinth. The sides of the basin are ornamenetd with a blind arcade of trefoil arches or niches; these are described in Bond (ibid.) as Ogee niches assuming "a homely form". In Harrison (1920) as 14th-century, Decorated. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The parish church of St. Mary [...] The nave dates from about 1100, having early-14th-century insertions, but it was lengthened east in the drastic restoration of 1886–7 [...] The west tower was built in the 15th century [...] The font has a 14th-century square bowl with ogee tracery on the sides, set on a 12th-century cylindrical pedestal with plain attached shafts; the base is modern." Whiteman (1994) describes it as a composite font: "The 14th-century font, a square basin with ogee tracery, is mounted on a simple Norman base." The entry for this church in the Sussex Parish Churches web site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/253/34/] [accessed 1 November 2012] raises the possibility tha the square basin may have been the original 12th-century one, re-carved in the 14th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 290944 5650610
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.969098, 0.022404
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 58′ 8.75″ N, 0° 1′ 20.65″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round?
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with four metal raised ribs meeting at finial; 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. 227, 231 and ill. on p. 228
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 165
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 154
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 20
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 109