South Harting / Harting / Hertinges

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 06552HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Gabriel
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Gabriel [cf. ChurchNotes]
Church Location: The Street, Harting, West Sussex GU31 5QE
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
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."
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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 arches or windows on the sides; they are crudely trefoiled, in any case. The flat stone and the columnas base on which it rests appear modern,
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.968784,
-0.88499
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 58′ 7.62″ N,
0° 53′ 5.96″ W
UTM: 30U 648502 5648483
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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-. Accessed: 2013-01-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998