Thakeham / Taceham
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2311112] [accessed 25 October 2012]
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design element - patterns - tracery - varied
Scene Description: trefoils, quatrefoils, stars, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2311112] [accessed 25 October 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2005 by Oxenhillshaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thakeham_St_Mary.jpg] [accessed 25 October 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2311112] [accessed 25 October 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06562THA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [formerly St. Peter and St. Paul's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [formerly St. Peter & St. Paul]
Church Location: The Street, Thakeham, West Sussex RH20 3EP
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the South Downs, 5 km N of Storrington, 10 km SW of Horsham, 15 km NNW of Worthing
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of East Easwrith -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Almost identical to the fonts at Cowfold and Shermanbury
Church Notes: "church of ST. MARY, so called since 1830 (fn. 63) but invoking St. Peter and St. Paul in the early 16th century" [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Perpendicular font which, like those at Cowfold and Shermanbury, have "peculiar roundels on some of the panels, like those on chests of an earlier date". Harrison (1920), who dates the original church here as Norman, reports a Perpendicular font in it. Described in Naim & Pevsner (1965) as Perpendicular, "more elaborate than the Sussex average [...] Delicate and individual". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 2, 1986) notes: "There was a church at Thakeham in 1086 [...] The nave dates from the early 12th century [...] The octagonal panelled font dates from the later Middle Ages." Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 15th-century font is octagonal and ornately carved". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.94394, -0.42214
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 38.18″ N, 0° 25′ 19.7″ W
UTM: 30U 681093 5646755
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with eight curved ribs joining at Latin-cross finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-10-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998