Mayfield nr. Tunbridge Wells

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design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk]; reproduction of a B&W photograph in Mee [1937]

Copyright Instructions: Paul's email: OK to use the digital image from his site

design element - architectural - window - round - 8

Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk]; reproduction of a B&W photograph in Mee [1937]

Copyright Instructions: Paul's email: OK to use the digital image from his site

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area for details]

Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk]; reproduction of a B&W photograph in Mee [1937]

Copyright Instructions: Paul's email: OK to use the digital image from his site

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2009 by Keith Gordon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1160035] [accessed 30 January 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 January 2011 by Tom Morris [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Dunstans_Mayfield_2.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net] [accessed 215 January 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: Paul Zwierzanski [www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk]; reproduction of a B&W photograph in Mee [1937]

Copyright Instructions: Paul's email: OK to use the digital image from his site

INFORMATION

FontID: 06532MAY

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dunstan

Church Patron Saints: St. Dunstan

Church Location: High Street, Mayfield, East Sussex, TN20 6AQ

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located 15 km S of Tunbridge Wells, just E of the A267

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Loxfield Pelham -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1666

Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Post-Reformation

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photograph of this font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Harrison (1920) reports a "Font dated 1666" in this church; he further notes: "The original church, with the exception of the tower (Early English) was nearly destroyed by fire in 1389. The present building is mainly Perp[endicular]" [NB: an earlier church, perhaps of the 10th century, may have preceded the 13th-century one]. Illustrated in Mee (1937). Described in Whiteman (1994) as: "an octagonal font dated 1666". The octagonal basin has vertical sides on which a series of letters appear; one of the sides has the capital letters "TD" in the upper register and the letters "AW" in the lower register; the other sides contain the date; the underbowl is a concave octagonal chamfer, plain. The base has two volumes, both ictagonal: the stem has vertical sides decorated with a combination of a tall round window inside which is a trefoil arch, one per side; the lower base is decorated with mouldings and splays out at the bottom. Mee's photograph shows the font covered with a Jacobean-type wooden lid, a flat surface on which four scroll ribs stand at 90-degree angles of a central pivot with a ball finial. The Parish web site [www.stdunstansmayfield.org.uk/church-buildings] [accessed 30 January 2013] notes: "The font dates from 1666 and the initials of the vicar at the time, Robert Peck are carved on the octagonal bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.020473, 0.261482

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 13.7″ N, 0° 15′ 41.33″ E

UTM: 31U 307939 5655671

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: claimed to be the initials of Robert Peck, vicar] [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: basin sides

Inscription Text: "[...] TD / AW [...] [1666]"

Inscription Source: Whiteman (1994: 105)

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean? (17th century?)

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Sussex, 1937

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