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view of font and cover
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - 20
Scene Description: lancet-shaped; five on each of the basin sides
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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06559TEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: Piddinghoe [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [aka Laurence's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Telscombe Village, East Sussex, BN7 3HY
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the C7, 3 km N of Southease, 6 km N of Newhaven, 9 km SSE of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Holmestrow -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) reports a stoup and a "beautiful font [...] This little church is mainly Tr[ansitional]-Nor[man] (late 12th c), [...] with some E[arly] E[nglish] additions, [...] Restored in 1902." The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The church was valued at 20 marks in 1291 [...] The nave and chancel are probably of the mid-12th century, to which the aisles and tower were added at the very end of the century. The porch and vestry are modern. The church was restored in 1903 and again in 1922. [...] The font has a square bowl mounted on a square pedestal having on each face two rectangular recessed panels, each containing a tall, narrow trefoil-headed panel. The lead settings for the locking-staples of the cover remain on the upper surface of the bowl. The font is apparently of the 13th century, and resembles that at Piddinghoe." The plan of the church interior in the VCH entry (ibid.) for this church shows the font located at the very west end of the north aisle. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The medieval square font of green sandstone is carved on each side with lancets and set on a base with deeply cut trefoil-headed arches". Noted in the CRSBI (2008).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 710675 5632180
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (green)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: the present cover is modern, flat and square, with a Latin cross finial/handle [cf. FontNotes]
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. 199
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 154