Patching / Petchinges

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 06539PAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Divine
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: 138 The Street, Patching, West Sussex BN13 3XF
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located N of Ferring, 11-12 km NW of Worthing
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Patching -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Harrison (1920) notes in his entry for this church: "Restored in 1856 and 1889. E[arly] E[nglish] Church with some Perp[endicular] windows and font, 15th c, with old cover" [cf. infra]. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1908) notes: "There was a church at Patching in 1086. [...] It has a chancel, a nave with south porch and a north transeptal tower with broach spire [...] the existing fabric of all three portions of the building appears to be 13th-century. [...] A plain Perpendicular screen and a richly decorated font canopy survived in 1854 but were later removed. (fn. 30) The present font is late medieval but the base of an earlier one survived in 1830." [NB: the 'canopy' mentioned in the VCH entry may actually refer to either a tall font cover or a canopy proper -- the font has now a flat octagonal cover, modern, with metal decoration and ring handle]. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The fine 15th-century font is octagonal with quatrefoil decoration".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.847856,
-0.460158
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 50′ 52.28″ N,
0° 27′ 36.57″ W
UTM: 30U 678790 5635980
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes for a reference to an older cover or canopy now disappeared]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-10-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998