East Marden

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INFORMATION
FontID: 06502MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: East Marden, West Sussex, PO18 9JE
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B2141, about 10 km NNW of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Westbourne and Singleton -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
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Noted in Walker (1908), Harrison (120) and Drummond-Roberts (1935), of whom Harrison mentions it as "chalice shaped". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) has: "The font is goblet-shaped, perhaps 12th-century, stanting on a modern octagonal base". In Whiteman (1994) as a "goblet-shaped lead-lined font, probably 12th-century". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (208) with date in the late-12th or early-13th century. The CRSBI (Ibid.) notes a "large mend on NW side of rim just visible under lining" and that "the tapering, concave stem and plinth appear to be modern".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.925395, -0.85259
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 31.42″ N, 0° 51′ 9.32″ W
UTM: 30U 650917 5643725
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm* [includes lead lining]
Basin Total Height: 44 cm* [approx.]
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (200*)]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-08-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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: 2006-08-31 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998