Ifield nr. Crawley
Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 2008
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Results: 8 records
BU01:
design element - motifs - foliage - waterleaf
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Crawley/CrawleyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 19 February 2010]
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R01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Crawley/CrawleyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 19 February 2010]
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UB01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Crawley/CrawleyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 19 February 2010]
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view of basin
Scene Description: before it was moved from the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 30 March 1997 [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-ifiel.html] [accessed 18 February 2010]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Crawley/CrawleyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 19 February 2010]
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view of church interior
Scene Description: the font is now [November 2004] used as a lectern; it is located at the northwest corner of the nave, west of the chancel arch and opposite the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Crawley/CrawleyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 19 February 2010]
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view of font
Scene Description: with the wooden lectern top on
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Crawley/CrawleyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 19 February 2010]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font before it was moved from the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 30 March 1997 [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-ifiel.html] [accessed 18 February 2010]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06524IFI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Church Road, Cobham, Kent DA13 9AS
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km outside Crawley, to the W, 10 km NE of Horsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Burbeach -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [moved -- cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1180?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net], for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: "church of ST. MARGARET (the dedication is recorded from 1489)" [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Noted in Harrison (1920) as a late-Norman baptismal font of the 12th century. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 12th-century font of Sussex marble has a typical Norman form, a square bowl on a central column with four supporting shafts; uncommon however is the decoration, roll mouldings and waterleaf foliage". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 3, 1987) notes: "The existence of a 12th-century church is suggested by the surviving font of that date. The present chancel is early 13th-century [...] The fine 12th-century font has a square Sussex marble bowl and four corner columns with delicately carved capitals." Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Crawley/CrawleyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 18 February 2010]: "The font is located just in front of the chancel arch and now doubles as a reading desk! It dates from about 1180." The Sussex Records Society [www.sussexrecordsociety.org/jflistpicsdetail.asp?an=&ap=&Id=3388] [accessed 18 February 2010] records a painting (?) of this font executed in 1777 by Francis Grose (1731-1791) "sold, Sotheby's, 19 Nov. 1992, lot 252". This same source records a drawing (?) of this font by the same artist and dated 17th May 1777, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, "Copy after Grose for Douce?" (MS. Douce c.1, f. 5). Noted in Nairn & Pevsner (1965). Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "A square bowl of Sussex marble, circular and lead-lined inside. The sides are plain but a roll is carved around the top edge. The NE and SW corners, and the W side, are damaged. The basin is supported by five columns: one large central shaft and four slender corner shafts with stylised waterleaf capitals with fat neckings and bulbous bases with spurs. The columns stand on three superimposed plinths. The upper plinth is carved from the same piece of Sussex marble as the font while the middle plinth is a separate piece of Sussex marble; the lower plinth, of indeterminate stone, is clearly modern. (Loc: W end of nave, off-set to N)"; dated in the CRSBI (ibid.) to the 12th century. [NB: the location of the font given in the CRSBI -at the west end of the nave, off-set to the north- corresponds to the time of their visit to this church on 30 March 1997; the font appeared at the east end of the nave, north side, by 2004, where it is used as a lectern [cf. supra]]. The CRSBI (ibid.) further notes: "The font belongs to a large group of Sussex marble fonts with square basins and columnar supports. It seems to pre-date any of the church fabric, but this design may have continued into the 13thc."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.123889,
-0.219444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 7′ 26″ N,
0° 13′ 10″ W
UTM: 30U 694574 5667279
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Basin Total Height: 23 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 126 cm* [103 cm w/o the modern lower plinth]
Trapezoidal Basin: 58 x 58.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: a wooden lectern is used now on top of the font
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-02-18 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: 2010-02-18 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998
