Climping / Clepinges / Clymping
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Partridge, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Partridge [http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com]
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the octagonal basin
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: a large motif on each panel of the undebowl chamfer
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 12 February 2012 by Charlesdrakew [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Climping_Church_font.JPG] [accessed 25 September 2012]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1561291] [accesed 25 September 2012]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1560544] [accesed 25 September 2012]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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Image Source: illustration in Brandon (1849: pl. 28 section I)
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Image Source: illustration in Brandon (1849: pl. 28 section I)
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Image Source: illustration in Brandon (1849: pl. 28 section I)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011
Image Source: 1780 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/c/005add000005674u00066000.html] [accessed 29 October 2011]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06492CLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [re-tooled?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Lane/Horsemere Green Lane, Clymping, West Sussex BN17 5RB
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A259 (Bognor Regis to Littlehampton)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: re-tooled? (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is a 1780 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 5674 - Item number: f. 36 (no. 66)]. Described and illustrated in Brandon (1849) as a Perpendicular font, "a pleasing specimen; of good proportion, with some very well executed foliage". Huseey (1852) dates the stone font to the late Decorated or early Perpendicular period. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a beautiful example of a panelled font" of the Perpendicular period [NB: Brandon, as well as C&H, use the spelling "Clymping"]. Ditto in Harrison (1920). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1977) notes: "There was a church at Climping by the 1080s, [...] which in 1248 was appropriated to Almeneches abbey (Orne) [...] The tower, of the later 12th century, is of massive construction [...] The rest of the church is mid 13th-century [...] 15th-century octagonal font". Described in Whiteman (1994) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the 14th century. The font is indeed a very good specimen of the classic Perpendicular design, and is a very good state of conservation; the sharpness of some of the carved motifs appears to indicate some re-tooling, perhaps just as part of a general restoration of the font. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 11th-century church here.]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Partridge, of http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 670613 5631908
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.81374, -0.578104
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 48′ 49.46″ N, 0° 34′ 41.17″ W
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: appears to be octagonal and flat; modern?
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Brandon, Raphael, An analysis of Gothick architecture, London: D. Bogue, 1849, p. 90 and pl. 28 section I
- 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. 94
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 217 [no. 63]
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 45