Ferring No. 1 / West Ferring

INFORMATION

FontID: 06506FER

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Ferring, West Sussex, BN12 5HN

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A259, just 5-6 km W of Worthing

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Poling -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is a heavy circular basin resting on four shafts, in addition to the main stem, coeval with the building." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Ditto in Harrison (1920) dated to the 13th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.812348, -0.447699

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 44.45″ N, 0° 26′ 51.71″ W

UTM: 30U 679803 5632063

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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