North Stoke nr. Arundel / Stoch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2008 by Charlesdrakew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:North_Stoke_Church_4.JPG] [accessed 5 February 2013]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Snow, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Martin Snow in Sussex Churches website [http://sussex-churches.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/page3.html] [accessed 20 February 2008]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Smith in Geograph [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/544153] [accessed 20 February 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 21 February 2008)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Parkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 December 2007 by Bob Parkes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/632362] [accessed 5 February 2013
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Smith in Geograph [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/544153] [accessed 20 February 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 21 February 2008)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © DMJ1962, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by DMJ1962
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06538STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [now redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [original dedication unknown]
Church Address: North Stoke, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9LS
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km N of Arundel
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Poling -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: damaged font: damage, patches, etc
Font Notes:
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Described in Parker (1850): "The font is small, plain, and round." Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in January 1889 accompanied by the following description: "All circular except the chamfered plinth at base. Circular bowl, lead lined, slightly raked sides, flat plan, 12 3/4 deep, 3 1/4 margin: flat modern cover. Position, centre of nave walk near West End. Lac cover." Noted in Walker (1908). Described in Harrison (1920) as a bowl-shaped font of the Early English period. Dated in Nairn & Pevsner (1965) to ca. 1200. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The bowl-shaped font of Pulborough stone dates from the 13th century". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Martin Snow, of www.sussexchurches.co.uk, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 672191 5640172
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.88752, -0.551832
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 53′ 15.07″ N, 0° 33′ 6.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Pulborough stone [sandstone?]
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 49 - 50 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 69.07 cm [calculated from CRSBI]
Basin Depth: 30 cm* -- 32 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)] -- ** [in inches in Harvey Fridham [cf. FontNotes]]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round; plain
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 194
- Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965, p. 283
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [entry no.] 169 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT265&lpg=PT265&dq=towersey+church+font&source=bl&ots=p3keqKFFdN&sig=qRXxsvjY8p3VMVj8NHklip-Nlhg&hl=en&ei=5-PgSen8D4LEM_jPjf8I&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPT265,M1] [accessed 11 April 2009]
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 110-111
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 114