Coldwaltham / Cold Waltham
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Photograph and permission received from Colin Smith (email of 3 October 2008)
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BU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Colin Smith October 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received from Colin Smith (email of 3 October 2008)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Colin Smith October 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received from Colin Smith (email of 3 October 2008)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Smith October 2008 [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/981315] [accessed 4 October 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received from Colin Smith (email of 3 October 2008)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Colin Smith October 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received from Colin Smith (email of 3 October 2008)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 1997
Image Source: B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/coldw/index.htm] [accessed 4 October 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium, 2008
Image Source: from Church Plans Online (Published by the NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium) Reproduced in the CRSBI
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06495COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: 2 Church Lane, Coldwaltham, West Sussex, RH20 1LW
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A29, 3 km SW of Pulborough (dir. Arundel)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bury -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: composite font / altered font / damaged font -- re-mounted on a later, Victorian (?), pedestal base
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes the church here as "mainly Dec[orated]", but mentions no font in it. Described in Whiteman (1994) as a bowl-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "a plain cup font with a lead-lined basin. There is lock damage on the S side of the rim. The font is mounted on a modern plinth." [NB: the CRSBI (ibid.) points out that this font is not included in Walker (1908). The roughly hemispherical basin is of crude workmanship and plain, except for a marked roll moulding on the underbowl; this basin appears to have had a rough life, its sides eroded and damaged, though it never was a fine piece; it is now raised on a late octagonal-to-square pedestal base, a quadrangular loware base and a modern plinth of the same shape. The wooden font cover is an original design, somewhere between a pyramid and a stylised building, perhaps a church, of which the Sussex Parish Churches site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/402/33/] [accessed 6 February 2013] notes: "Designed by Woodyer, 1870."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font and cover
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 672513 5645968
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.939498, -0.544525
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 22.19″ N, 0° 32′ 40.29″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (includes rim): 43 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- 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.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 205
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 46