Rudgwick / Ridgewick
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
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Results: 3 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20 arches
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
design element - motifs - moulding
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
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Smith, 16 June 2008
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 06546RUD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Church St, Rudgwick, West Sussex, RH12 3EB
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for the photographs of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.097897,
-0.442583
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 5′ 52.43″ N,
0° 26′ 33.3″ W
UTM: 30U 679063 5663822
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
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998