Southwick nr. Brighton
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1286234] [accessed 23 October 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06553SOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels [formerly St. Margaret's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels [formerly St. Magaret]
Church Notes: Church given to the Knights Templar in the 13thC -- the dedication to St. Michael starts in the 18thC -- church damaged by fire and bombs
Church Address: Church Lane, Southwick, West Sussex, BN42 4GD
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km E of Shoreham by Sea, 6-7 km WNW of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishersgate -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in December 1888 accompanied by the following description: "All square, - freestone. Circular bowl inside, lead lined, vertical sides, curved plan, 11 inches deep. 4 inch margin; flat modern cover. Position, at crossing of aisle door walk with that of nave, - at S. W. angle." Noted in Harrison (1920): "Font, plain square, similar to that at Kingston-by-Sea." Described in Whiteman (1994) as a square font from the 13th century. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1980) notes: "A church was recorded in 1086 on the estate which appears to have been Southwick, though called Kingston. [...] It was presumably a dependency of Kingston church [i.e., Kingston by Sea] [...] The tower [...] has been said to be Saxon, but most of its fabric is of the 12th century or early 13th. It was built against the older west end of the former nave, which was probably of the 11th century." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this church. The CRSBI (2008) reports: "The plain square font is probably 13thc. in date".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 694262 5635073
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.834722, -0.241111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 5″ N, 0° 14′ 28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 192
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 147