Ewhurst (ESussex)

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B01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in www.roughwood.net

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design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: very stylised [cf. Font notes]

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view of basin - upper view - detail

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ewhurst/EwhurstStJames2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06503EWH

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Ewhurst Green, Ewhurst, East Sussex, TN32 5TD

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located about 17 km N of Hastings

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Staple -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle, W of the S door

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.992433, 0.556969

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 32.76″ N, 0° 33′ 25.09″ E

UTM: 31U 328556 5651824

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. Accessed: 2006-07-20 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

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

Jones, Gwen, The Parish Church of St. James the Great, Ewhurst, East Sussex, 2000

Kelly, Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1867

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

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998