Woolbeding / Ulebeding / Welbedinge / Welbedlinge [Domesday] / Welbedlinge

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 March 2009 by Shazz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1186502] [accessed 11 September 2012]

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view of font and cover - east side

Image Source: B&W photograph by Kathryn A. Morrison, CRSBI

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view of font and cover - southeast side

Image Source: B&W photograph by Kathryn A. Morrison, CRSBI

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1867758] [accessed 11 September 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06512WOO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Hollist Lane, Woolbeding, West Sussex, GU29 9RR

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A272, about 2-3 km NW of Midhurst, just S of the Manor House

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Easebourne -- Rape of Winchester, Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W wall of the tower

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: Similar fonts at Didling, Graffham and Selham, all in West Sussex

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font here is bell-shaped (Dallaway)". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Harrison (1920) reports a cup-shaped Norman font in this church. The VCH (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "On the north of the nave both original 11th-century quoins are visible, on the south both are covered by later work", and its church interior plan shows a font beneath the tower, but reports that, with the exception of the altar rails, "the other fittings are modern." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The tub-shaped font is possibly 12th-century with later re-tooling". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.997445, -0.757615

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 50.8″ N, 0° 45′ 27.41″ W

UTM: 30U 657348 5651934

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 6.5 - 7 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in the CRSBI (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-26 00:00:00. 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. Accessed: 2006-07-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

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

Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908

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