Fittleworth / Fetilworth / Fitelworthe / Fitelwurda / Fyteleworth
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
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design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 8
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1778418] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2008 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/980947] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1778497] [accessed 15 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06508FIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane, Fittleworth, West Sussex, RH20 1HL
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A283 and the B2138, just 4-5 km W of Pulborough, 5 km SE of Petworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bury -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) reports a Perpendicular font in this church. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The font, probably 14th-century, has an octagonal bowl decorated with rosettes". The basin is too shallow for a font of this period, and the motifs on the sides, rosettes inscribed in a quatrefoil-in-a-circle-in-a-square, appear to have been truncated at the top, the upper rim covered by the flap of the lead lining; raised on an octagonal stem with trefoiled panels on the sides, and a splaying lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, and appears old, perhaps 17th- or 18th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.96393, -0.563984
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 50.15″ N, 0° 33′ 50.34″ W
UTM: 30U 671056 5648639
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th - 18th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998