Westhampnett / Hamptonett / Hamtona / Hentone / West Hampnett
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2645958] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2645958] [accessed 7 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Charlesdrakew, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2007 by Charlesdrakew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Westhampnet_Church.JPG] [accessed 19 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06049WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1660?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid?), Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath one the bays of the S arcade of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Stane Street, Westhampnett, West Sussex PO18 0NT
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the N outskirts of Chichester, on the Chichester-Petworth road [A27]. 2 km from the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Box and Stockbridge -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church mentioned in Domesday)
Font Notes:
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Harrison's (1920) entry for this church notes: "Restored in 1867 and 1876. The chancel is of Saxon work ; unfortunately the arch, constructed of Roman bricks, has been 'restored' away, but the herring-bone work of Roman tiles still remains", and reports an octagonal font dated 1660. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The church, which is mentioned in Domesday Book, originally consisted of a chancel and a nave; in the 13th century it was enlarged [...] In the north-east corner of the (otherwise rebuilt) porch are the remains of a holy water stoup."; the VCH (ibid.) further notes a pre-Conquest window now blocked; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The 1938 church interior plan shown in the VCH entry has a font located in a central bay of the arcade between the nave and the south aisle, Described in Whiteman (1994): "The font, with octagonal bowl and stem, is 17th-century". The wooden font cover consists of an octagonal castellated base with eight vertical scroll ribs meeeting at an acorn (?) finial; the design is also 17th-century, but it could be a Victorin rendering of the old type. [NB: we have no information on the font of the pre-Conquest church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 658603 5635439
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.84888, -0.74691
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 55.97″ N, 0° 44′ 48.88″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century? / 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 210
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 32
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 173