Herstmonceux / Herste / Hurstmonceux
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the four outer colonnettes of the base; the inner shaft is round and plain
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2011 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2686900] [accessed 22 January 2013]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2011 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2653895] [accessed 22 January 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Carey, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by Simon Carey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1787175] [accessed 22 January 2013]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Chambers (1888: fig. 50, p. 97)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
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view of font cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 May 2011 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2686900] [accessed 22 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06517HER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Herstmonceux, East Sussex BN27 1QJ
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A271, 7 km NEE of Hailsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Horsearle -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Alfriston, Willingdon?
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Chambers (1888): "The font, in which Sir Roger De Fienes, the founder of the church, was baptised on Sept. 14, 1384, stands rather awkwardly in the S. aisle, near the S. door. It is of plain Decorated character, the basin square, supported on octagonal shafts with a larger cylindrical pillar in the centre. The basin is lined with lead." Noted in Harrison (1920): "The font is plain square early Dec[orated] (compare Willingdon)." Described in Whiteman (1994: 83): "The 14th-century square font stands on a circular central shaft with four supporting octagonal columns".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.868057, 0.33312
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 5″ N, 0° 19′ 59.23″ E
UTM: 31U 312350 5638541
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round platform with vertical scroll-ribs around a turned pivot; acorn finial; there is a square wooden fram atop the basin, in which the cover fits
REFERENCES
Chambers, George F., A handbook for East-Bourne, Pevensey and Herstmonceux castles, Wilmington priory, Michelham priory, Beachy Head, Hailsham [...], London; East-Bourne: Edward Stanford; Keay, Mandy, [et. al.], 1888
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998