Sutton nr. Chirchester

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05954SUT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Folly Lane/School Lane, Sutton, West Sussex RH20 1PS

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located just E of the A285, 12-13 km ENN of Chichester [Diocese of Chichester]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Cognate Fonts: Beccles, Denham and many such others all over England

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described in Harrison (1920): "Font (13th c.) with octagonal bowl and eight shafts." Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". This font is one of them. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 13th-century marble font is octagonal and carved with pointed arches; the bowl stands on a plain central stem surrounded by eight marble shafts".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 668080 5644506

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration, lock and ring handle

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998