Selmeston No. 1 / Selmestone

Harrison (1920) does not mention the font here, but notes a "stoup in porch". According to Whiteman (1994): "Part of the 13th-century font was found when the lychgate was rebuilt; the 19th-century font now in use is probably a replica of the old one." The illustration of the new font in this same source (ibid.) shows a plain hemispherical basin mounted on a central column and round outer colonnettes ornamented with roll mouldings at the upper and lower ends. The source does not indicate what part of the old font was found. The old font is noted in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/heysh/index.htm] [accessed 20 July 2006] as a circular font with moulded capitals [The CRSBI mentions the font at Selmeston and "the disused font at Maresfield"]. [cf. Index entry for Selmeston No. 2 for a medieval holy-water stoup also in this church]