Chithurst / Titcherste
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the font and cover are visible in the left [southwest] corner](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120731007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible in the left [southwest] corner
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1738417] [accessed 31 July 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06491CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled], Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Chithurst Lane, Chithurst, West Sussex, GU31 5EU
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A272, about 10 km E of Petersfield (dir. Midhurst)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dumpford -- formerly Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: re-tooled -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC (?) Anglo-Saxon (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Harrison (1920) reports a 11th-century font here. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "There was a chapel or little church (ecclesiola) at Chithurst in 1086. [...] The church [...] (invocation unknown) [...] consists of chancel and nave, both of the 11th century (evidently the very ecclesiola mentioned in Domesday Book) [...] the font (12th-century, but re-tooled in modern times) is tub-shaped on an octagonal base and square sub-base". The plan of the church interior illustrated in the VCH entry for this parish (ibid.) shows the font located in the southwest corner of the nave." Described in Whiteman (1994) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the 12th century. The wooden cover is pyramidal octagonal, with a foliated finial; appears modern. The Church of England web site [www.achurchnearyou.com/chithurst-st-mary/] [accessed 31 July 2012] gives the dedication of this church as St. Mary's. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 11th-century (?) Anglo-Saxon (?) church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 654264 5652152
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.00024, -0.801435
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 0′ 0.86″ N, 0° 48′ 5.17″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 91
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 42