Pulborough No. 1 / Poleberge
Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
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Results: 5 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16
Scene Description: the drawings posted inside the arches are not part of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2628859] [accessed 4 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the bases of the angle colonnettes [now lost] of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2628859] [accessed 4 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1763904] [accessed 4 February 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2628859] [accessed 4 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arthur Mee, 1937
Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 06115PUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka Our Lady of the Assumption]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Place, Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 1AE
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A29 and the A283, about 20 km ENE of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of West Easwrith -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
The entry for this church in Kelly's Directory for 1867 notes: "the font is square and large, of Saxon origin". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Walker (1908) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Harrison (1920) as late-Norman. 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. [NB: Tyrrell-Green informs (ibid.) that "the angle shafts now [i.e., ca. 1928] missing"]. In Drummond-Roberts (1935). Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 12th-century font is of Purbeck marble, a square bowl with carved arcading". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The font has a square bowl of Sussex marble, carved with four very worn round-headed arches on each side. It has a circular, lead-lined basin. Damage on the SE and SW spandrels was probably caused by the removal of the lock. The font is supported by a single central column but, in addition, originally had four smaller angle columns. The recesses, or bases, for these are still evident on the upper surface of the upper plinth."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.959294,
-0.509732
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 57′ 33.46″ N,
0° 30′ 35.03″ W
UTM: 30U 674883 5648251
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Basin Total Height: 33 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 72 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, [n.d.]. Accessed: 2013-02-04 00:00:00.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Kelly, Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1867
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Sussex, 1937
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
