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 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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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 - east side

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

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06512WOO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman

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

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

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

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

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

Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom

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

Additional Comments: damaged font: the upper rim of the basin / altered font: the basin is re-tooled, the plinth is modern

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

UTM: 30U 657348 5651934

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.997445, -0.757615

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

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-. 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
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 107
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 219
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, p. 307
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 38
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 185