Poling / Poleing

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font cover

Scene Description: rim-buffer type with painted side panels

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06543POL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Poling Street, Poling, West Sussex BN18 9PS

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located 4 km SE of Arundel

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Poling -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 10th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports a font of Caen stone in this church. Drawing of a font at Poling, Sussex, 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 November 1888 accompanied by the following description: "Circular bowl on octagonal stem of base, the 2 last named being modern. Circular bowl inside, lead lined, 14 1/2 inches deep. 4 inch margin: modern "perpendicular" octagonal flat traceried cover, or box, about 9 inches high and flat on top. Position, West side pier in S. arcade, East of S. Porch." In Walker (1908). Noted in Harrison (1920) as a baptismal font of the late-Norman period. Whiteman (1994) writes: "The tub-shaped font may be Saxon though the pedestal is later". The CRSBI (2008) notes: "This font [...] may have been a plain Norman tub, which was given its present chamfer and moulding at a later date, probably when an octagonal shaft was first added, in the late medieval period", but add that "the shaft and base now appear to be Victorian".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.832108, -0.514781

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 55.59″ N, 0° 30′ 53.21″ W

UTM: 30U 675004 5634098

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 10 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm*

Basin Depth: 36.25 cm**

Basin Total Height: 50 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)] -- ** [in inches in the Harvey Pridham Collection [cf. FontNotes]]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: rim-buffet type, with painted panels on the sides; dome top; acorn finial

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2007-02-23 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908

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