Steyning / Staninges
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view of font
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior - south view
![EXT S digital photograph taken 1 October 2006 by Neddyseagoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Steyning.jpg] [accessed 24 October 2012] CCL
INT EAST digital photograph taken 10 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1636299] [accessed 24 October 2012]
INT NAVE Spandrel digital photograph taken 10 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1636337] [accessed 24 October 2012]
FONT digital photograph taken 10 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1636291] [accessed 24 October 2012]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130501086_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 1 October 2006 by Neddyseagoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Steyning.jpg] [accessed 24 October 2012] CCL
INT EAST digital photograph taken 10 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1636299] [accessed 24 October 2012]
INT NAVE Spandrel digital photograph taken 10 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1636337] [accessed 24 October 2012]
FONT digital photograph taken 10 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1636291] [accessed 24 October 2012]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neddyseagoon, 2006
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view of church interior - nave - detail
Scene Description: decorated spandrel in the arcade
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - patterns - zigzag
Scene Description: large zig-zag around the sides of the basin
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the ones forming the bases of the columns are probably part of the original base
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the upper surface of the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI (2008) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-steyn.html] [accessed 24 October 2012]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI (2008) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-steyn.html] [accessed 24 October 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06555STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: New Shoreham [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew and St. Cuthman [originally St. Cuthman's?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew & St. Cuthman [originally St. Cuthman?]
Church Notes: Saxon church founded by St. Cuthman; Edward the Confessor granted it to the Benedictine monks of Fécamp, Normandy, who rebuilt the church [cf. Ye Olde Susex Pages web site]. "Magnificent late Norman nave, possibly the finest of this period in the country" (Whiteman, 1994: 148) -- "church of ST. ANDREW (the dedication, first recorded in 1263, (fn. 20) replaces the original one to St. Cuthman)" [cf. VCH entry for this church in FontNotes]
Church Address: Vicarage Lane, Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3YL
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Bramber and Upper Beeding, 6-7 km N of Shoreham, 8 km N of Worthing
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Steyning -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here) -- altered font: the base is a modern replacement
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Steyning in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1711/steyning/] [accessed 16 March 2024]
Font noted in Walker (1907). Harrison (1920) writes: "Font, late Nor[man] on 14th c. base." Harrison (ibid.) further remarks: "This fine church is a splendid specimen of late Nor[man] work, approaching Tr[ansitional]-Nor[man]. It stands on the site of an older Saxon edifice, in which Ethelwulf (father of Alfred the Great) and St. Cuthman are said to have been buried." Harrison (ibid.) also comments: "The rich mouldings and finely carved capitals, some of Saracenic character (cf. Icklesham), have a very pleasing effect ; these are scallop ; saw-tooth ; chevron ; cable ; ferns ; palm-leaves, etc." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with a zigzag or chevron motif on the basin. Noted in Drummond-Roberts (1935). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1980) notes: "A church at Steyning is said to have been founded by St. Cuthman, [...] who perhaps flourished in the late 8th or early 9th century. The evidence is late and not completely trustworthy, [...] but is supported by 11th- and 12th-century references to 'St. Cuthman's parish' and 'St. Cuthman's port' in Steyning. [...] The church was evidently a minster church, perhaps originally serving Steyning hundred. [...] Nothing remains of the pre-Conquest church of wood which St. Cuthman is said to have built [...] The church was rebuilt by Fécamp abbey on a cruciform plan between the late 11th century and the mid 12th [...] The font is Norman, comprising a square bowl on a round base with four corner columns." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The square Norman font, carved with a V-shaped pattern, is of Purbeck marble". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), which gives the font at New Shoreham as cognate. Noted and illustrated in Ye Olde Sussex Pages' web site [http://yosp.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=267&Itemid=603&lang=en] [accessed 24 October 2012]: "The font is 12th century but sits on a 14th century base". The font consists of a shallow square basin with large zig-zag ornamentation around its sides; it is mounted on a broad central column and four detached corner colonnettes, the latter ornamented with capitals and bases.
Font noted in Walker (1907). Harrison (1920) writes: "Font, late Nor[man] on 14th c. base." Harrison (ibid.) further remarks: "This fine church is a splendid specimen of late Nor[man] work, approaching Tr[ansitional]-Nor[man]. It stands on the site of an older Saxon edifice, in which Ethelwulf (father of Alfred the Great) and St. Cuthman are said to have been buried." Harrison (ibid.) also comments: "The rich mouldings and finely carved capitals, some of Saracenic character (cf. Icklesham), have a very pleasing effect ; these are scallop ; saw-tooth ; chevron ; cable ; ferns ; palm-leaves, etc." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with a zigzag or chevron motif on the basin. Noted in Drummond-Roberts (1935). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1980) notes: "A church at Steyning is said to have been founded by St. Cuthman, [...] who perhaps flourished in the late 8th or early 9th century. The evidence is late and not completely trustworthy, [...] but is supported by 11th- and 12th-century references to 'St. Cuthman's parish' and 'St. Cuthman's port' in Steyning. [...] The church was evidently a minster church, perhaps originally serving Steyning hundred. [...] Nothing remains of the pre-Conquest church of wood which St. Cuthman is said to have built [...] The church was rebuilt by Fécamp abbey on a cruciform plan between the late 11th century and the mid 12th [...] The font is Norman, comprising a square bowl on a round base with four corner columns." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The square Norman font, carved with a V-shaped pattern, is of Purbeck marble". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), which gives the font at New Shoreham as cognate. Noted and illustrated in Ye Olde Sussex Pages' web site [http://yosp.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=267&Itemid=603&lang=en] [accessed 24 October 2012]: "The font is 12th century but sits on a 14th century base". The font consists of a shallow square basin with large zig-zag ornamentation around its sides; it is mounted on a broad central column and four detached corner colonnettes, the latter ornamented with capitals and bases.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 688125 5641028
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.890243, -0.325108
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 53′ 24.88″ N, 0° 19′ 30.39″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Purbeck marble? / Sussex marble?)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 22-23 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 84.5 x 85.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
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.
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 84
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 192-193
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 80
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 70
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 148