Walberton / Walburgetone

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Results: 7 records

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view of font and cover

Image Source: Basher digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1815808] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: Bond (1908:120)

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: in 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Chris Shaw [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/32542] [accessed 10 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: in 1953

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Les Whitcomb in 1953 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1574507] [accessed 10 May 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-walbe.html] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-walbe.html] [accessed 25 September 2012]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05664WAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1100?

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [form. cast out of the church]

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

Church Address: Binsted Lane, Walberton, West Sussex BN18 0LN

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

Directions to Site: Located just S of the A27, 5 km WSW of Arundel, equidistant from Chichester (W) and Bognor Regis (S)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex

Additional Comments: recycled font [cf. Font notes] -- altered font: the base is modern -- disappeared font? (the one reported in the church still ca. 1776)

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Walker (1908). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on a doughnut-shaped base or plinth. Bond (ibid.) comments that many of these crude fonts devoid of all ornamentation found, for instance, in the Sussex area, "cannot be proved to be Anglo-Saxon, but neither can they be proved to be Norman". The appearence of the two parts, basin and base, of very different colour and probably type of stone, may be an indication that they were not originally a set. Harrison (1920) reports a disused old font in this church with a nave that dates back to the 11th century. Tyrrell-Green (1928) reported a font at Walberton that had been cast out of the church but later recovered and restored to its original use. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The tub-shaped font may be Saxon or early Norman". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) notes: "There was a church in 1086. [...] In 1105 Robert de Haye, lord of Walberton, gave it to Lessay abbey (Manche) [...] During the later 12th century two-bayed north and south arcades were cut into the eastern end of the possibly pre-Conquest nave; a gable cross which may have been pre-Conquest was discovered in the west wall c. 1903. [...] The early history of the building has been obscured by extensive restoration and rebuilding in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. [...] The font in 1776 was square, supported on four columns; [...] it was replaced in 1843. [...] The present tub-shaped font was inserted at the 1903-4 restoration after being found in a farmyard." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "This irregular tapering tub font has an unlined basin and stands on a roughly carved circular plinth, which, in turn, stands on a modern plinth. The rim is carved with cable and is slightly damaged. [...] Despite its uncertain provenance this does appear to have been a font. It can be dated to c.1100, on the basis of its shape, size and cable decoration." The carved rim is in the shape of a fishbone, a central groove with side incisions; now very worn. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font located in the church in 1776, nor do we know the origin of the tub font found in a farmyard and installed in the church -- wast it the original pre-Conquest vessel?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 667444 5635062

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.843, -0.6216

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 34.8″ N, 0° 37′ 17.76″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 52 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 106 cm* [includes modern plinth/base]

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; 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. 37, 125-126 and ill. on p. 120
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.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 204
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 40
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 36
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 163