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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 67)
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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 16
Scene Description: two per side of the basin
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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 67)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Arundel_%28NHLE_Code_1027914%29.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Cattell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2010 by Mike Cattell [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St._Nicholas_Parish_Church,_Arundel,_West_Sussex-6March2010.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2012]
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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the pedestal base
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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 67)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arundel Parish, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish website [www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk/history.html] [accessed 4 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05878ARU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1380?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: London Road, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9AT
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the junction of the A27-A284, 6 km NW of Littlehampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1086 church here) -- painted font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Beattie (1844) indicates that by 1380 part of the former "Alien Priory, or Cell of St. Nicholas", dating from the early-12th century constituted part of the parochial church here, and he reports in it "an ancient octagon stone font". Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Harrison (1920) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) notes: "A minster establishment which existed at Arundel in 1086 [...] seems to have been founded before the Conquest [...] The church of St. Nicholas [...] a uniform structure of the later 14th century and earlier 15th [...] The octagonal font of Sussex marble has cusped arcading on both bowl and stem; in 1834 it was painted in stone colour. [...] Before the 1870s it stood in the south transept." The Parish web site [www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk/history.html] [accessed 3 April 2012] notes: "As you enter St Nicholas, the Font is just in front of you. This octagonal Font, made of Sussex marble is probably the oldest relic in the church, being of late decorated style, and is commensurate with the building." The basin has a pair of trefoiled windows on each panel; this same motif is repeated on the pedestal base (but only one window per panel here); graded chamfer; round basin well; splayed lower base; octagonal plinth with "priest's stone".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 671920 5636604
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.855545, -0.557363
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 19.96″ N, 0° 33′ 26.51″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Beattie, William, The Castles and abbeys of England: from the national records, early chronicles, [...], London: George Virtue, 1844, p. 35
- 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. 54
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 100 and fig. 67