Slindon / Eslindone
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1724237] [accessed 24 September 2012]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1724237] [accessed 24 September 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Slindon_%28NHLE_Code_1027563%29.JPG] [accessed 24 September 2012]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1724237] [accessed 24 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06551SLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Hill, Slindon, West Sussex, BN18 0RB
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located W of Arundel, 11 km NE of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Aldwick -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E of the S doorway
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
In Walker (1908), Harrison (1920) and Drummond-Roberts (1935). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "There was a church at Slindon at the time of the Domesday Survey. [...] This was probably rebuilt some seventy years later, as about 1154 Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury and Legate, dedicated the church of Slindon and made a grant of land for its endowment. [...] The 11th-century church, which is mentioned in Domesday Book, (fn. 28) consisted of chancel and nave, and must have closely resembled that of Tangmere. [...] The font is of the 13th century, and has a square basin supported on five shafts rather more slender than those of the typical font design of the period." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The font can be dated to the 13th century by its moulded shafts" . Noted in the CRSBI (2008) as one in a group of "fonts with moulded capitals which form part of a square bowl". The CRSBI includes in this group the fonts at Cuckfield, Heyshott, Iford, Ripe, Slindon, West Hoathles and Woodmancote.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 49.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 58.5 x 58.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-24 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: 2007-03-17 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998
