South Harting / Harting / Hertinges

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view of font

Scene Description: a medieval basin on a modern base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2016 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the well-worn lead lining; the centre drain hole appears blocked now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2016 by Colin Smith

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2016 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2016 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1125496] [accessed 31 July 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06552HAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Gabriel

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Gabriel [cf. Church Notes]

Church Notes: The VCH [cf. FontNotes] has: "Suss. Rec. Soc. xlii, 268; the modern added invocation of St. Gabriel seems due to a misunderstanding of Suss. Arch. Coll. xii, 72."

Church Address: The Street, Harting, West Sussex GU31 5QE

Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the B2146, about 5 km S of Petersfield

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Dumpford -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex

Additional Comments: altered font (only the basin appears original; the base is a modern replacement)

Font Notes: Click to view

No entry for South Harting found in the Domesday survey. Harrison (1920) reports an Early English font in this church. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The whole existing fabric, except the porch, was built c. 1300 [...] The font (12th-century) has a square basin with shallow panelling of round arches, resting on five columns." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 13th-century Purbeck marble font, square with carved arcading, has a Jacobean cover". The Sussex Parish church web site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/501/33/] [accessed 31 July 2012] has: "Font: Battered square bowl with incised trefoil arcading on the sides. Probably C13, though the shafts and base are C19." The contradiction in the shape of the arches between the above sources is probably due to the crude shapes of the trefoil arches or windows on the sides. The flat stone and the columnas base on which it rests appear modern,

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 648502 5648483

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.968784, -0.88499

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 58′ 7.62″ N, 0° 53′ 5.96″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean

Notes: [cf. FontNotes -- we have no evidence of it at present]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 123
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 145