Selmeston No. 1 / Selmestone

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06547SEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Selmeston, East Sussex, BN26 6UD
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A27, 8 km NE of Newhaven
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Danehill -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: damaged font: only a part of the old font has been found
Font Notes:
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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 298867 5636177
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.842294, 0.143052
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 32.26″ N, 0° 8′ 34.99″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
  • Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 179
  • Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 137-138