Ewhurst (ESussex)
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
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Results: 9 records
B01: design element - motifs - panel
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.roughwood.net
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.roughwood.net
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: very stylised [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.roughwood.net
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1997
Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI (2008) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-ewhur.html] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of basin - upper view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1997
Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI (2008) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-ewhur.html] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06503EWH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle, W of the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Ewhurst Green, Ewhurst, East Sussex, TN32 5TD
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 17 km N of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Staple -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Additional Comments: damaged font: at the upper rim, probably from the removal of old cover staples
Font Notes:
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Described in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the font is square on a circular column". Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is square, shallow, on a stem and foot, all of Weald marble." Kelly's Directory of 1867 gives the material as "Sussex marble". Harrison (1920) reports a late-12th century font in this church. Noted in Drummond-Roberts (1935). In Whiteman (1994): "the 13th-century font is a square bowl of Sussex marble with tapering sides". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with added comment: "Although this font probably just squeezes into the 13thc., it represents the continuation of a regional type, which originated and thrived in the late 12thc." In Jones & Martin (2000): "of Pentworth marble and dates probably from either the twelfth or thirteenth century [...] Although the base is badly mutilated, traces of carved feet are still visible at the four corners." The wooden font cover is round and flat, with a Latin cross finial/handle.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum], for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 328556 5651824
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.992433, 0.556969
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 32.76″ N, 0° 33′ 25.09″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Sussex or Weald marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Basin Total Height: 21 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 98 cm* [with modern plinth included]
Trapezoidal Basin: 69 x 79 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/ewhur/index.htm]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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.
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 36
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 109
- 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. 225
- Jones, Gwen, The Parish Church of St. James the Great, Ewhurst, East Sussex, 2000, [http://stjamesegreen.com] [accessed 20 July 2006]
- Kelly, Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1867, [page unknown/not recorded]
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50953] [accessed 10 January 2007]
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 66