Lancing / North Lancing
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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 16
Scene Description: four on each side of the basin
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 January 2009 by Andrew Hill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1138424] [accessed 12 October 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2304948] [accessed 12 October 2012]
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view of font - east side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06113LAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Less [formerly St. Mary's?]
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Less [aka James the Lesser, James the Little, James the Minor, James the Younger] [earlier dedicated to St. Mary?]
Church Location: Manor Rd, Lancing, West Sussex, BN15 0EY
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located just E of Worthing, between Worthing and Shoreham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Brightford -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of the most interesting of the twenty-nine baptismal fonts of the Norman period in this county that have square bowls. Harrison (1920) reports a square Norman font in this church. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early baptismal font consisting of a square basin mounted on a broad central column and four outer colonnettes. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1980) notes: "Architectural evidence shows that there was a church at Lancing on the present site in the 12th century [...] In 1636 the font no longer held water [...] The 12th-century font has a square bowl on an octagonal central pillar with four circular corner pillars." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The font, a shallow square bowl of marble, is Norman". The CRSBI (2008) notes: "low, square Sussex marble bowl with a circular interior, composed of three horizontal sections, and supported by an octagonal central column and four angle colonnettes on a square plinth. Each face is carved with five rectangular panels. [...] The unusual font is probably late 12thc. in date."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.837682,
-0.322303
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 50′ 15.65″ N,
0° 19′ 20.29″ W
UTM: 30U 688534 5635192
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Height of Basin Side: 12-16 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 70 x 72 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-10-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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: 2012-10-12 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
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
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998
