Chichester No. 1 / Noviomagus Reginorum
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B01:
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1993
Image Source: B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/elste/]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1993
Image Source: B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/elste/]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06112CHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul, Elsted [originally from Church of St. Olave, Chichester]
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Chichester is located 11-12 km NW of Bognor Regis up the A259
Font Location in Church: Inside the church of St. Paul, in Elsted
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [plinth only?], Medieval [composite]
Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a good specimen from a group of fonts "characteristic of the Norman period in architecture", "consisting of a rectangular bowl upon a large central shaft, with four slender supporting shafts at the angles"; ornamented with a blind arcade on the sides. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008), however, states: "This limestone and Sussex marble font appears to be Victorian. It comprises a square limestone bowl with arcaded sides, and is supported by a thick central limestone shaft and four slender Sussex marble angle shafts, without capitals or bases. The interior is not lead lined. The chamfered square plinth appears to be much older than the rest of the ensemble. It probably reprents the remains of a Romanesque font, upon which the Victorian font was based." The CRSBI further notes that "the font was given by St. Olave's, Chichester in 1956" [and that the medieval dedication of Elsted's church was to St. Michael]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 46.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 102 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 59 x 59 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Image source: B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque * [Measurements in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/elste/]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
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. Accessed: 2006-02-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Fleming, L., "The little churches of Chichester", 5 (1957), Chichester Papers, 1957, pp. 10; r["References"]
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
