Penhurst

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3130785] [accessed 1 February 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font and cover are visible at the east end, north (left) side, just west of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3130791] [accessed 1 February 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 06540PEN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Penhurst Lane, Penhurst, East Sussex, TN33 9QP

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located 6 km WNW of Battle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundre of Netherfield -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, N side

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view

Harrison (1920), who dates the church to the Perpendicular period, mentions the 17th-century font cover but not the font itself. The font is noted in Whiteman (1994): "The font, octagonal in bowl and stem, is 15th-century".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.923061, 0.410293

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 23.02″ N, 0° 24′ 37.06″ E

UTM: 31U 317994 5644463

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal flat platform has eight crocketed ribs around turned pivot

REFERENCES

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

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