Hamsey / Hame / Hammes / Hammes Say / Mammys
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2003
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 December 2003 by Mark Collins, Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Hamsey/Hamsey2003.htm] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 November 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2701763] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kevin Gordon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken18 October 2008 by Kevin Gordon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1012772] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2701763] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the top of the font visible at the back (west end), behind the left (south) bank of benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 December 2003 by Mark Collins, Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Hamsey/Hamsey2003.htm] [accessed 1 November 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 December 2003 by Mark Collins, Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Hamsey/Hamsey2003.htm] [accessed 1 November 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 November 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2701763] [accessed 1 November 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06513HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [aka Old St. Peter]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: demoted to chapel-of-ease to Offham St. Peter's, and used chiefly as a mortuary chapel since the late 19thC, at which time it was slated for demolition, though it never was demolished and retains its pre-Victorian character.
Church Address: Off The Drove, Hamsey, East Sussex, BN7 3PX
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A275, 4 km N of Lewes, 16 km NE of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Barcombe -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: damaged font (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) reports a Perpendicular font in the church that goes back to Norman times. The Victotria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The parish church of St. Peter [...] The nave dates to the early 12th century, except for its west extremity. [...] The font is of limestone, probably from East Anglia, of 15th-century date, stepped, with trefoil tracery on the octagonal bowl and stem." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 15th-century limestone font is octagonal and carved with cusped arches". [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum], for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 289693 5641932
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.890715, 0.009622
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 53′ 26.57″ N, 0° 0′ 34.64″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 120
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 77