North Mundham / Mundreham
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Results: 7 records
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: around the modern lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 December 2010 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2208637] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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design element - patterns - fluted - diagonal
Scene Description: all around the modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 December 2010 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2208637] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxenhillshaw, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2005 by Oxenhillshaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:North_Mundham_St_Stephen.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2024 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 April 2025)
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2024 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 April 2025)
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Stephen, North Mundham- font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 December 2010 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2208637] [accessed 6 April 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/crsbi/search/county/site/ed-sx-nmuna.html] [accessed 18 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06537MUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Church Rd, North Mundham, West Sussex, PO20 1JH
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2166, 3 km SE of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Box and Stockbridge -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the blocked N doorway
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Bignor, Brighton, Penton, etc., are fonts of similar overall shape in the same county.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the church exterior
Church Notes: North Mundham assumed the parish care of Merston in 2010 [cf. Index entry for Merston]
Noted in Hussey (1852), after Dallaway [James Dallaway (+1834)?]: "The font is 'a very large and plain cylinder of black marble." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of several tub-shaped baptismal fonts of the Norman period in this county. In Walker (1908). Harrison (1920) writes in his entry for this church: "The font is Nor[man] and is the largest in Sussex." The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "Of the church mentioned in Domesday Book [...] nothing remains; the nave and aisles are of the 13th century, the tower of c. 1550. [...] The medieval chancel was demolished at an unknown date, and the church appears without it in Grimm's drawing of 1782; [...] it was rebuilt, with the vestry and organ chamber, in 1883 [...] The font is cylindrical, perhaps 12th-century, on a modern base". Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "By the blocked N doorway is the imposing font, a massive circular bowl (possibly 12th-century) with straight sides and moulding beneath, standing on a modern fluted base". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "A large, plain cylindrical tub, with a lead lined basin, a plain chamfer on the rim (which has mends to E and W) and a convex chamfer on the lower edge. The modern plinth is carved with a spiral decoration and has an attic base. [...] The convex chamfer around the lower edge of the tub font suggests a date of c.1200." The VCH entry for this church [cf. supra] includes a 1938 plan of the church interior, in which the font appears located against the south pillar of the Tower arch, against its east side.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone? (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 64 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm*
Basin Total Height: 52 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1887
Material:
wood,
Notes: information from a parish leaflet [www.ststephensnorthmundham.co.uk/attachments/stephens_leaflet2.pdf] [accessed 18 September 2012]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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. Accessed: 2006-07-24 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
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
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998
