Felpham / Falcheham
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Partridge, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Partridge [http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 24?
Scene Description: six on each side of the square basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Partridge, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Chris Partridge [http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Felpham_%28NHLE_Code_1293556%29.JPG] [acessed 25 September 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the cover standing, to the left of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2010 by Nick Macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1693489] [accessed 25 September 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1990
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1990; in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/felph/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06504FEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 5 Limmer Lane, Felpham, West Sussex PO22 7PE
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the coast, just E of Bognor Regis
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chirchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: in 1852 it is reported on a single shaft; later reported with four corner-colonnettes added -- old base in the churchyard ca. 1997 [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is of Weald marble, large, square, with arches panelled in the sides, and a stem, but no shafts." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Harrison (1920) as a font of the late-12th century. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) with a group of Norman-period fonts on which "the arcading is rather rudely represented by a succession of shallow sunk panels with semicircular heads [...] the only adornment" of the basin. Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "The large Norman font is square with shallow arcading". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), where the material is identified as "Sussex marble", and dated probably 12th-century, contemporary with the arcades of the nave. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) describes the material as "Sussex marble" and gives the date as "late 12th-century"; it adds that "its original base lies in the churchyard opposite the south door". The font consists now [2010] of a square basin decorated with a shallow-carved arcade around the sides, mounted on a broad central pillar and four corner colonnettes [NB: the outer corner colonnettes are modern, since none were present ca. 1852, when Hussey visited, and the VCH reports the old base in the churchyard ca. 1997], all raised on a plain square plinth; the centre shaft and moulded lower base appear to be modern as well; the modern corner colonnettes have rounded bases. A photograph of this font by Ms. Young, Victoria Margaret Sproul (op. 1850-1852) is listed with ref. no. PD 2012 (2) in the West Sussex Record Office, in Chichester, UK. There is an illustration of the Felpham font in the Victoria County History (ibid., opp. p. 235), but a more recent one [cf. Images area] shows a complete modern base.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Partridge, of http://sussexchurchez.blogspot.com, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 665353 5629147
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex or Weald marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Basin Total Height: 29 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 74 x 74 cm* [top] -- 69 x 71 cm* [bottom]
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain square platform with four low fish-shaped ribs on top; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
- 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, 226
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 75
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 67