Slaugham / Slacham / Slagham
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 June 2017)
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 June 2017)
view of font and cover - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/709943] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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animal - mammal - cetacean - whale?
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 June 2017)
view of basin - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - plant or tree - 3
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
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view of basin - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: on the north and south sides of the basin, four arches per side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/709943] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Smith in [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/709943] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 June 2017)
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/709943] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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view of font - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 1991
Image Source: B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (1991) [[http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/slaug/index.htm] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the east side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 1991
Image Source: B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (1991) [[http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/slaug/index.htm] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06408SLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: other 'fish' fonts
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Staplefield Rd, Slaugham, West Sussex, RH17 6AG
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km S of Crawley, just off the A23
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buttinghill -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: whale on the font? certainly a rarely-depicted fish -- repaired font / damaged font -- [SLAUGHAM is pronounced 'slaffam']
Font Notes:
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The font is not mentioned in Hussey (1852). 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; "[it] has on one side, in the arcaded work, the incised figure of a fish, the well-known symbol of our Lord". Harrison (1920) notes: "font, late Nor[man], with rude carving of a fish, etc." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of the old baptismal fonts ornamented with fish "typifying Christ or the Christian". Noted in the Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940): "The font is of late-12th-century date, made of Sussex marble. It has a square, slightly tapering bowl: the north and south sides of it are treated with four very shallow round-headed panels; on the east face is carved a fish, and on the west three sprays with voluted tendrils, all in very low relief. The stem is cylindrical and surrounded by four round shafts: the base is moulded and common to both the stem and the shafts." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with dating to the late 12th century, and noting that the decoration on the north and south sides consist of "thin stems each issuing two pairs of symmetrical scrolls, in a manner reminiscent of ironwork". Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "The font is typically Norman, a square bowl on a central column with supporting corner shafts; unique in Sussex is the decoration, one side having a carving of a fish." The large 'fish' [it actually looks like a whale, therefore a mammal, a cetacean rather than a fish proper] motif occupies the full east side of the basin side; the west side has three tree or plant symbols; the north and south sides have a blind arcade of four round arches on each side; the base consists of a broad central and four slender angle colonnettes; there is evidence of repairs to the upper rim area, the kind of damage usually associated with the metal staples of the old cover; the basin is raised on a moulded lower base, a common style of support in this table-top font design. The wooden cover is square and has metal decorations and handle; appears modern. The font is made of 'Sussex marble' [i.e., a local limestone] and stands on a modern plinth. The flat wooden lid with metal reinforcements is probably modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font, and to Richard Nevins of www.wisgreen.freeserve.co.uk for his photograph of the fish motif detail on the side of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 695736 5657794
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0383, -0.208
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 2′ 17.88″ N, 0° 12′ 28.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Sussex)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 36.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 69 x 69 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat wooden lid; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 222, 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 38, 185
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 68
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 67
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 141, 142