Folkington

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Results: 7 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - trefoiled - 8
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
view of church exterior - north view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is located behind the left bank of pews, opposite the north door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2008 by Nick Macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2105727] [accessed 28 March 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06509FOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [aka St. Peter ad Vincula]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Folkington Road, East Sussex BN26 5SD
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located at the end of a narrow lane towards the Downs, 3 km WSW of Polegate
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Longbridge -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes a wooden tower of the Early English period in this church; the church was renovated in 1870; no mention of a font in it. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The Perpendicular stone font is octagonal, the stem decorated with pointed trefoil arches".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.812865, 0.211548
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 46.31″ N, 0° 12′ 41.57″ E
UTM: 31U 303565 5632721
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998