Maresfield / Chapelwood Manor / Maresfull / Marrysfeld / Marysfield

Reported in Hussey (1852): "A broken font, apparently E[arly] E[nglish], which was dug up in the vecinity, is now preserved at Maresfield vicarage." There is no mention of a font in Lower's (1870) entry for this church. Harrison (1920) reports: "old font in tower ; square font (in use) with the signs of the Evangelists cut on sides ; two stoups, one in nave and the other in the porch." A photograph in Drummond-Roberts (1935) of a font in Rottingdean was claimed to have been found in the vicarage garden, and is suspected [cf. infra] to be the old font of Maresfield. Described in Whiteman (1994) as: "the old font, a shallow bowl with fragments of its six supporting shafts". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with two interesting notes: 1)"a note in the church states that the disused font is thought to come from Lutley Chapel in the Forest; 2)the old font at Rottingdean, which had been photographed by Drummond-Roberts [cf. supra], appears not to be there any longer and the CRSBI wonders if these two are not one and the same. [NB: the new replacement font in this church is not listed]. This may be the same object referred to in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Maresfield/NutleyStJames2003.htm] [accessed 11 February 2010]]