Litlington nr. Lewes
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Permission received (standing permission)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: FONT additional image digital photograph taken 15 February 2012 by nick macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2820279] [accessed 24 January 2013]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Litlington/
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (standing permission)
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06528LIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: The font at Piddinghoe, also in Sussex, is made of the same material
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: The Street, Cuckmere Valley, East Sussex BN26 5RF
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Seaford, 13 km SE of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Longbridge -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is a plain octagon, with stem and base, Perp[endicular]." Reported in Harrison (1920) as a Perpendicular font in a church of Norman origin. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The Perpendicular font of green sandstone has an octagonal bowl, stem and base". [NB: green sandstone was not an uncommon building material in Sussex in the 15th century. The tower of Little Horsted St. Michael's, for instance, dated ca. 1500, was also built of green sandstone ashlar (Whiteman, ibid.)]. Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net]: "The font is early 16th century, with the original lead lining still present under the present one." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original Norman church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net], for his photograph of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 299846 5631089
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.796928, 0.159708
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 47′ 48.94″ N, 0° 9′ 34.95″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (green)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Apparatus: no
Notes: low pyramidal cover; octagonal, with concave sides
REFERENCES
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 254
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 100