Kirdford
Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2130079] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - west tower - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2130076] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground (west end), to the left (north side)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2001 by nick macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1639772] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2130319] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06527KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1620
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early), Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptst
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Glasshouse Lane, Kirdford, West Sussex, RH14 0LT
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NE of Petworth, about 20 km ENE of Midhurst
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Rotherbridge
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920), who notes traces of Norman-period work in the north wall of the nave, reports a font of 1620 in this church. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The plain octagonal font of Sussex marble, a stone quarried at Kirkford until the 19th century, is inscribed with the date 1620 and the initials of two churchwardens". [NB: we have no information on the font from the Norman church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 671788 5655861
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.028598, -0.55015
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 1′ 42.95″ N, 0° 33′ 0.54″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: unknown
Inscription Text: “H. S. 1620 R. P.”
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with low raised ribs around a central pivot; modern
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 140
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 94