Easebourne / Essebourne / Isenburne

Harrison (1920) notes a font of the 12th century, Transitional period, here. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "That the original church of Easebourne was a pre-Conquest 'hundredal' church, like that of Singleton [...] is probable from its having attached to it in 1291, [...] and as late as 1535, [...] the chapels of Midhurst, Fernhurst, Lodsworth, and Todham. The earliest reference to it is in a deed of c. 1105, by which Savaric fitz Cane and Muriel his wife gave the church of 'Isenburne' to the Norman Abbey of Séez. [...] To a nave [...] and chancel of the 11th century there was added in the 12th a narrow north aisle and tower. [...] The font, 12th-century, has a square basin with small sunk round-headed panels on three sides only; it rests on five shafts, one large and four small, without caps or bases." The VCH entry (ibid.) remarks on the absence of Easebourne from the Domesday survey: "The vill of Easebourne is not entered in the Domesday Survey, although it gave its name to a hundred and there is reason to think that its church [...] was in existence. [...] Possibly the entry was omitted by accident". Noted in Nairn & Pevsner (1965) with date in the late-12th century. Described in Whiteman (1994) as "Purbeck marble font, a squarer bowl with arcading on three sides" of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "A square, lead-lined, Sussex marble bowl, supported by a central cylindrical shaft and four angle shafts. The central column is original but the angle shafts were replaced in 1876. The original upper part of the plinth, including weathered bases for the shafts, is set on a square, modern pedestal. The bowl is carved with five shallow round-headed arches, each of one continuous order, on its N, S and E faces. The plain W face must have been placed against a wall at some time. The centres of all four faces are very worn." [NB: we have no information on the font from the pre-Conquest church here].