Sidlesham

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design element - motifs - floral - lily?

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin, between two quatrefoiled leaves; the motif is described in most sources as a lily or fleur-de-lys, though it now resembles a slouching human figure

Image Source: B&W photograph 4 August 2001 -- The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison (2008) [http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?uid=43989&sos=12]

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design element - motifs - leaf - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: on the four sides of the basin; the north, south and east sides appear to have three of these leaves on each; on the east side there are two, one on each side of a lily (?)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base; the central shaft has none

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view of basin - east side

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view of basin - north side

Scene Description: notice the damage to the stone

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2007 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/349629] [accessed 20 September 2012]

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view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1636088] [accessed 20 September 2012]

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view of font in context - northwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06116SID

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Sidlesham, West Sussex PO20 7RH

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B2145, 4-5 km W of Bognor Regis, 5 km S of Chirchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Manhood [aka La Manwode/Manwood] -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, behind one of the pillars of the arcade that divides the nave from the N aisle

Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional / Early English

Cognate Fonts: quatrefoiled leaves also on the font at Pagham

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Hussey (1852) has: "The font in this church is circular. (Dallaway)" [NB: did Dallaway and/or Hussey see another font? or, was it just an error?]. Harrison (1920) reports a font of the Early English period in this church, but does not mention its shape. 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 fleur-de-lys (on the basin sides); T-G (ibid.) mentions also "leaves of quatrefoil shape" on this font. In Walker (1908). Described in the Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953): "The font (early 13th-century) has a square basin carved with sylized floral design; this rests on four small shafts with moulded caps and bases and one large one without either." Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "The 13th-century square font has carved decoration similar to that at Pagham. It rests on a central stem with corner shafts and stands on a platform part of which is a medieval graveslab". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "probably early 13thc. in date, but issues from a 12thc. tradition". There is damage to the upper rim at several spots, probably related to the staples of the old cover; this damage is most obvious on the north side of the basin, where a gouge runs all the way down the stone..

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.784542, -0.787807

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 4.35″ N, 0° 47′ 16.1″ W

UTM: 30U 655939 5628198

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble) [basin and shafts] -- sandstone [capitals and bases of shafts]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*

Basin Total Height: 30 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm* [including medieval tomb slabs used as plinth]

Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 72.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-25 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: 2006-07-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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