Bury nr. Pulborough
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view of font and cover in context
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1731010] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06489BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the western arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Church Lane, Bury, West Sussex, RH20 1PB
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just off the A284 (Arundel to Pulborough), 3 km from Amberley, 6 km S of Pulborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 13th-century church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) reports a Perpendicular font in this church, as well as a holy-water stoup outside the south door; the church was originally of the 13th century. Described in Whiteman (1994) as a "15th-century font, octagonal and carved with rosettes". [NB: we have no information on the font from the original 13th-century church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 671303 5642577
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 81
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 37-38