Washington nr. Worthing

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627204] [accessed 24 October 2012]

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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8

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view of church exterior - northwest end

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2008 by Pam Fry [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/970171] [accessed 24 October 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06568WAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: The Street, Washington, West Sussex, RH20 4AS

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located just off the A24 (Worthing-to-London road), 7 km from Steyning, 11 km NNW of Worthing

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Steyning -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century [re-tooled?], Perpendicular [altered?]

Church Notes: "church of St. Mary (the dedication is recorded as early as 1146) " [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1980) notes: "Philip de Braose granted Washington church to Sele priory c. 1096 [...] in exchange for Shipley church, the grant being confirmed in 1126 and later. [...] The early history of the fabric has been largely obscured by the rebuilding of everything except the tower and the north arcade in the 19th century. [...] The octagonal font is 15th-century". Described in Whiteman (1994): "The typical Perpendicular font is octagonal with panels of pointed arches having trefoil and cinquefoil heads". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.904559, -0.409931

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 16.41″ N, 0° 24′ 35.75″ W

UTM: 30U 682104 5642407

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-10-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998