East Dean nr. Eastbourne No. 1
Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - ball - between wavy mouldings
Scene Description: a band of, all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
Image Source: digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/edeas/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
B01: design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings - beaded-tape
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
Image Source: digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/edeas/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
B02: design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings - quatrefoil with circle - 3-strand tape
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
Image Source: digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/edeas/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
BBL01: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
Scene Description: all around [here shown on the original fragment -- cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
Image Source: digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/edeas/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of basin - detail
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
Image Source: digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/edeas/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of basin and cover
Scene Description: showing the reconstructed east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
Image Source: digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/edeas/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 06499DEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Simon and St. Jude
Church Patron Saints: St. Simon & St. Jude
Church Location: Gilberts Drive, East Dean, East Sussex, BN20 0DL
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower arch, S side
Century and Period: 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]
Font Notes:
Click to view
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. Accessed: 2007-03-18 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Horsfield, Thomas Walker, The History, antiquities, and topography of the County of Sussex, Lewes [Sussex]: Baxter, Sussex Press, 1835
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998