Rudgwick / Ridgewick
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Smith, 16 June 2008
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20 arches
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Colin Smith, 16 June 2008
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Colin Smith, 16 June 2008
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06546RUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Church St, Rudgwick, West Sussex, RH12 3EB
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 9 km W of Horsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of West Easwrith -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Listeed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Harrison (1920) reports a late-Norman font in the chiefly Decorated church here; he also reports traces of Early English work in the tower. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The late 12th-century font (restored), a square bowl of Sussex marble, has round-headed arcading". The font, of the table-top type, consists of a square basin decorated with a blind arcade of five round arches on each side; it is raised on a broad central shaft and four slender angle colonnettes, the lower base being moulded around the bases of the columns. Square wooden cover, decorated with metal.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for the photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 679063 5663822
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.097897, -0.442583
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 5′ 52.43″ N, 0° 26′ 33.3″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Sussex)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 172-173
- Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965, p. 315
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 133