Petworth / Peteorde
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of font
![the modern font at the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130413019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern font at the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2011 by Charlesdrakew [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacred_Heart_Petworth_font.JPG] [accessed 13 April 2013]
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view of stoup - basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: very crude workmanship
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior
![NB: the old spire visible here in this 1789 watercolour was, according to Arnold (1864: 62) removed in 1800, but re-built when the church was restored. It was still up ca. 1828-30, as seen in J.M.W. Turner's painting [ww.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-a-church-spire-possibly-petworth-sussex-d25427] [accessed 13 April 2013].The spire was removed by (in?) 1947, as a Frith postcard [www.gravelroots.net/history/storepetworth2/571_712462.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2013] shows.](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0130413015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: NB: the old spire visible here in this 1789 watercolour was, according to Arnold (1864: 62) removed in 1800, but re-built when the church was restored. It was still up ca. 1828-30, as seen in J.M.W. Turner's painting [ww.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-a-church-spire-possibly-petworth-sussex-d25427] [accessed 13 April 2013].The spire was removed by (in?) 1947, as a Frith postcard [www.gravelroots.net/history/storepetworth2/571_712462.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2013] shows.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 1789 watercolour by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) of the northest view of Petworth church [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petworth_Church_by_Samuel_Hieronymus_Grimm_1789.jpg] [saccessed 1 February 2013]
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view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1869670] [accessed 1 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06541PET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [aka St. Mary and St. Thomas]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [& St. Thomas [cf. Church Notes]]
Church Notes: The CoE site [www.achurchnearyou.com/petworth-st-mary/] [accessed 1 February 2013] has the dedication simply as St. Mary
Church Address: Petworth, West Sussex, GU28 0AE
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km E of Midhurst, 21 km NE of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Rotherbridge [aka Russerburgh] -- Honour of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Petworth in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 13 September 2016]; it mentions a church in it. Arnold (1864) does not mention the font in this church, but gives an account of the building, removal and re-building of the noted spire of the church tower. Harrison (1920), who does not mention the font here either; he writes: "Restored in 1827, 1899, and 1904. This large church has some traces of the original work in the arches of nave (13th c), and the windows on N. nave (12th c)." Described in Whiteman (1994): "Under the tower is the 14th-century font, octagonal and carved with quatrefoils". [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here]. The font at the Sacred Heart (RC) church is modern, of neo-Gothic design.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church, font and stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 667760 5651215
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.988044, -0.609688
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 16.96″ N, 0° 36′ 34.88″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Arnold, Frederick Henry, revd., Petworth: a sketch of its history and antiquities, with notices of objects of archaeological interest in its vecinity, Petworh: Printed and published by A. J. Bryant, 1864, p. 62
- 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. 121