Racton
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is at the back (west end), hidden behind the right (north) bank of tall pews
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798561] [accessed 18 September 2012]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798520] [accessed 18 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06544RAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [dedication unknown in the VCH]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [dedication unknown in the VCH]
Church Location: Racton, West Sussex, PO18 9DP
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on B2147, just S of the crossroads with the B2146, W of Funtington, S of Stoughton, 3 km NE of Emsworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Westbourne and Singleton -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [restored], Medieval [altered]
Church Notes: The Church of England web site [www.achurchnearyou.com/racton-st-peter/] [accessed 18 September 2012] gives the dedication of this church as St. Peter's
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) describes the church itself as Early English with Perpendicular additions, but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "Savaric fitz-Cane and his wife Muriel, with the consent of their son Ralph, gave the church of Racton to Lewes Priory about 1142 [...] The nave may originally have been built in the 12th century and the chancel added in the 13th [...] The font is tub-shaped, probably 12th-century but restored". The VCH (ibid.) gives the dedication of the church as "unknown". Described in Whiteman (1994) as a baptismal font probably of the 12th century. The only ornamentation is a roll moulding around the upper rim. The restoration includes a modern two-step octagonal plinth or lower base added to the font. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with possible date in the 12th century, but much re-tooled.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8774, -0.893497
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 38.64″ N, 0° 53′ 36.59″ W
UTM: 30U 648195 5638305
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (cylindrical)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 83 cm*
Basin Total Height: 59 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 59 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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: 2012-09-18 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998