Heyshott / Heyshot
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BU01: design element - architectural - column
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of font
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 April 2012 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2012 by Colin Smith
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view of font cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 April 2012 by Colin Smith
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view of base
Scene Description: a piece of the shaft
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/heysh/index.htm] [accessed 17 March 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06518HEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 13th century (early?) [altered], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneth the W gallery/choir
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: The Street, Heyshott, West Sussex, GU29 0DH
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 6 km SSE of Midhurst, E oc Cocking
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Easebourne -- formerly Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. In Harrison (1920): "Font is E[arly] E[nglish], and the caps of the angle pillars form part of the bowl." The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The font is a single block, its upper part is tubshaped, its lower fashioned into four capitals, perhaps originally 12th-century, later adapted to be set on five shafts, but now resting directly on a plain base. The cover is oak, of the 17th century." Described in Whiteman (1994: "All the fittings are modern except for the font which may date from the 13th century and appears to have been altered from its original form. It is tub-shaped with roll moulding round the rim and has four small shafts with capitals carved into it at the bottom; the oak cover is 17th-century". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), with date of the early 13th century; the CRSBI entry (ibid.) confirms Whiteman's suspicions and informs that the capitals that adorn the basin underbowl "now stand directly upon a low, square, chamfered plinth rather than upon shafts, which would have been the original arrangement." [NB: this same source reports a fragment of the shaft that measures 24.5 cm in length and that added to the height of the basin (73.5 cm) would bring this whole font to the more average height of around 100 cm expected of most fonts of this perod.] [NB: The CRSBI includes in this group the fonts at Cuckfield, Heyshott, Iford, Ripe, Slindon, West Hoathly and Woodmancote"].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 659831 5647326
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.955359, -0.724282
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 19.29″ N, 0° 43′ 27.41″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Basin Depth: 36 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54 cm* [including capitals]
Font Height (less Plinth): 73.5 cm* [not the original height]
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: round flat platform with eight vertical scroll ribs around a turned pivot; ball finial; appears modern
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. 44
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 127
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 84