Dallington nr. Heathfield / Dalintons

There is an entry for this Dallington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ6519/dallington/] [accessed 5 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Harrison (1920) notes a Perpendicular font here. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The octagonal font, probably coeval with the tower [15th-century Perpendicular], has concaved sides decorated with a variety of carvings" [one of them, illustrated in this same source, shows a Tudor rose]. [NB: not certain whether the present font -the one noted in Whiteman- is 15th-century or 19th-century, as the original church appears to have been dismantled and totally re-built in the Victorian period, saving only the tower and spire [cf. entry in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Dallington/DallingtonChurch2003.htm] [accessed 21 February 2010]. A record of the old font may have survived in a collection of drawings relating to Sussex and kept in the British Museum; the catalogue of this collection, prepared by H. Simmons and published by the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1878, has an entry for Dallington and notes a drawing of the "Stone Font" [ref.: "Add. Burr. 5676, fo. 2; and 5670, fos. 66, 67"]]. [NB: there is something odd about this font; the two pieces, basin and pedestal base, do not seem to fit together at all; also, the basin appears to have been re-cut].