East Guldeford / Guildford / New Guldeford
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Baxter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Colin Baxter [www.flickr.com/photos/cbbaxter/5071622151] [accessed 21 January 2013]
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design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Baxter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Colin Baxter [www.flickr.com/photos/cbbaxter/5071622151] [accessed 21 January 2013]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/EastGuldeford/EastGuldefordStMary2004.htm] [accessed 21 January 2013]
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view of font
Scene Description: the sides of the basin are very weathered; the pedestal and lower base are modern replacements
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Baxter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Colin Baxter [www.flickr.com/photos/cbbaxter/5071622151] [accessed 21 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06501GUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [previous location unknown]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [earlier dedicated to the Holy Trinity]
Church Location: Folkestone Road, East Guldeford, East Sussex TN31 7PA
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A259, 2 km E of Rye, about 20 km NE of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photograph of this church
Harrison (1920) notes "The font is old", without further details. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with an arcade "together with other forms of ornament upon the same bowl". Described in Whiteman (1994) as a 12th-century Sussex-marble baptismal font "brought from elsewhere". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The font comes from an earlier church [...] This font has an upright square bowl of Sussex marble. The very worn sides bear traces of carving, with arcading to S (seven arches) and W (six arches), possibly three circles enclosing rosettes on the E and possibly three or four square rosettes on the N. The basin is unlined, and lead staples remain in the NW and SE spandrels. The underside of the bowl is moulded to receive five supports, but these have been replaced by a square brick plinth with freestone corners." Noted in Leach (1975) as a "bowl only. Purbeck (or Sussex) marble" [source given: VCH, 9, 1937].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.960813,
0.756755
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 57′ 38.93″ N,
0° 45′ 24.32″ E
UTM: 31U 342468 5647863
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Sussex marble) / Limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Basin Total Height: 27 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm* [on a modern base]
Trapezoidal Basin: 71 x 70 x 68 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)
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: 2010-02-21 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
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
