Penhurst
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
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
Font ID: 06540PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Penhurst Lane, Penhurst, East Sussex, TN33 9QP
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km WNW of Battle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundre of Netherfield -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 317994 5644463
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.923061, 0.410293
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 55′ 23.02″ N, 0° 24′ 37.06″ E
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, p. 160
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 120