East Dean nr. Eastbourne No. 1

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Results: 6 records

B01: design element - motifs - ball - between wavy mouldings

a band of, all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: a band of, all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
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B01: design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings - beaded-tape

linked with other types of interlace, all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: linked with other types of interlace, all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
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B02: design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings - quatrefoil with circle - 3-strand tape

linked with other types of interlace, all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: linked with other types of interlace, all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
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BBL01: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
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view of basin and cover

showing the reconstructed east side
Scene Description: showing the reconstructed east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
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view of basin - detail

showing the fragment from the original font inserted in the west side of the reconstructed font
Scene Description: showing the fragment from the original font inserted in the west side of the reconstructed font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06499DEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [fragment only] [reconstructed font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Denton, also in East Sussex, is of a similar design but its interlace pattern is more geometric, reticular [cf. Font Notes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Simon and St. Jude
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower arch, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Simon & St. Jude
Church Address: Gilberts Drive, East Dean, East Sussex, BN20 0DL
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km WSW of Eastbourne [NB: not to be mistaken with its homonym in West Sussex, also with an entry in this Index]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Additional Comments: recycled font / reconstructed font: the remaining fragment of the Norman font? has been incorporated in the new font. In C&H, ca. 1907, it was listed as a font
Font Notes:
Hussey (1852) cites from the earlier entry in Horsfield (1835): "The upper part of the ancient font is used as a cistern in a farmyard, while the pedestal stands in front of a little inn, yclept [i.e., called] the 'Tiger', serving the mean occupation of a joss-block." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Harrison (1920) notes: "The font has some of the old Nor[man] work inserted in it, resembling those at Denton and St. Anne's, Lewes." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) in a "small group of tub-shaped fonts with [...] ornament of interlacing diagonal strands, resembling basketwork", of the Norman period in Sussex (the group includes: Lewes St. Anne's, Denton and East Dean). Described in Whiteman (1994): "The font is modern, though a Norman fragment is incorporated in the bowl and this provided the basis for its design". [cf. Index entry for East Dean No. 2 for a 14th-century holy-water stoup in this same church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 302529 5626875

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round with knob finial

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.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
  • Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 31
  • Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 99
  • Horsfield, Thomas Walker, The History, antiquities, and topography of the County of Sussex, Lewes [Sussex]: Baxter, Sussex Press, 1835, vol. 1: 284 fn
  • 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. 219 [no. 73]
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 85
  • Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 58