Litlington nr. Lewes

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Scene Description: FONT additional image digital photograph taken 15 February 2012 by nick macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2820279] [accessed 24 January 2013]

Image Source: www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Litlington/

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06528LIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: The Street, Cuckmere Valley, East Sussex BN26 5RF

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South East

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: The font at Piddinghoe, also in Sussex, is made of the same material

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net], for his photograph of this font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.796928, 0.159708

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 48.94″ N, 0° 9′ 34.95″ W

UTM: 31U 299846 5631089

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

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998