Ticehurst

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2683904] [accessed 6 February 2013]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2635454] [accessed 6 February 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2012 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2897976] [accessed 6 February 2013]

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view of font cover

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908: 304)

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the panels of the font cover

Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permision received (e-mail Nov. 4, 2003)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05645TIC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: The font covers at Rotherfield No. 2 and Sedlescombe; also the one at Ticehurst, Kent

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Church St/St Mary's Lane, Ticehurst, East Sussex, TN5 7AB

Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B2099, 25-30 km WNW of Hastings, about 20 km ESE of Tunbridge Wells

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Shoyswell -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex

Font Notes: Click to view

The font cover is noted in Glynne's (1877) entry for Newington, Kent, "is a 'buffet' cover similar to that in Ticehurst Church; it cannot be raised, but three of its sides form a door which opens outwards upon hinges". Bond (1908) describes the font cover as being of a class he calls 'Rim Buffet': "They are fixed to the rim of the font and have shutters opening like those of a triptych [...] three of their sides forming a door which opens outwards upon hinges." The illustration in this same source (p. 304) lets see only the upper rim of the basin, which appears octagonal and plain. Harrison (1920), too, describes the cover without mentioning the font itself: "Magnificent font canopy (15th c.) with flamboyant tracery and folding doors". Whiteman (1994) describes the font cover as "a 16th-century octagonal oak cover with folding doors, elaborately carved, similar to those at Rotherfield and Sedlescombe". Howard & Crossley (1919) note that the font cover "shows foreign influence in the design of its flamboyant tracery that decorates the interior".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 318290 5658082

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0455, 0.4077

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 2′ 43.8″ N, 0° 24′ 27.72″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 299 and ill. on p. 304
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 7fn
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 200
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 322
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Sussex, 1937
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 156