Cuckfield
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06496CUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: 8 Church Street, Cuckfield, West Sussex RH17 5JZ
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B2036, just N of the A272, about half-way between Brighton and Crawley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buttinghill -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: damaged font / restored font: damaged by a horse's kick? (Cromwell's soldier's? -- cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here?)
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in The Journal of the British Archaeological Association (issue of March 1886: 304). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Harrison (1920) assigns the font to the same period, early-13th century, and mentions it has been restored. Harrison (ibid.) further notes two holy-water stoups: one in the south porch, the other inside tyhe church. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The church of Cuckfield was granted to the Priory of St. Pancras at Lewes by William de Warenne between 1091 and 1098. [...] Foundations of a probably 12th-century church have been traced below the floor. [...] Enlargement began about 1250 [...] A great increase in size took place about 1330–40 [...] restored in the middle of the 19th century [...] The font has a round bowl which has been broken, patched, reworked, and relined with lead: it may be of the 13th century: it is carried on modern shafts. [...] In the south wall east of the main south doorway is a mutilated holy-water stoup with a round-headed niche, and in the south porch is another." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The tub-shaped font (restored) is 13th-century". [NB: the 'Boyer Study Group Newsletter #19 of January 1998 writes: "Apparently the church at Cuckfield has an ancient font too, cracked by a kicking horse belonging to one of Cromwell's soldiers." -- source: www.bowyer.org.uk/newsletter/ -- the original source of this info *may* be Arthur Mee]. Noted in the CRSBI (2008) entry for Heyshott St. James', as one in a group of "fonts with moulded capitals which form part of a square bowl" [the CRSBI includes in this group the fonts at Cuckfield, Heyshott, Iford, Ripe, Slindon, West Hoathly and Woodmancote"].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 700408 5654254
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0049, -0.1434
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 0′ 17.64″ N, 0° 8′ 36.24″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined [relined]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round , with metal decoration and ring handle
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. 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 98
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 51