Lyminster / Leominster / Lolinminster / Lolinminstre
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view of font and cover - northeast side
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2005 by Janine Forbes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/17857] [accessed 7 April 2013]
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view of church exterior - east view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2296913] [accessed 7 April 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-lymin.html] [accessed 24 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06530LYM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the E end, N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Church Lane, Lyminster, West Sussex, BN17 7QJ
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the outskirts, 3 km from the centre of Littlehampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Poling -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: repairs to basin etc.; also, replacement of the colonnettes
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is a plain square block of Weald marble hollowed out, and supported by a stem and four shafts of the same stone, in the Norm[an] style." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Walker (1908). Harrison (1920) reports a late-Norman font in this church, and further adds: "The original church was Saxon, and of this there may be traces in nave and chancel and the arch. It was a nuns' chapel of the time of Athelstan." Font noted in Drummond-Roberts (1935). Described in Whiteman (1994): "the plain font of Sussex marble [is] typically Norman". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with date ca. 1200. The CRSBI (ibid.) further notes that "repair on the NW corner of the rim, [...] the capital zone has been repaired, and the shafts are probably not original".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 672825 5634155
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.83327, -0.54567
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 49′ 59.77″ N, 0° 32′ 44.41″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm* [including capitals]
Font Height (less Plinth): 83 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 100 cm* [including modern plinth]
Trapezoidal Basin: 55 x 55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with Greek cross finial; modern
REFERENCES
- 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. 58
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p.149
- 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. 249
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 95
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 103