Westfield nr. Hastings
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
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Results: 9 records
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the five capitals of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the bases for the five columns of the base -- notice the modern colonnette replacements
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Westfield_%28NHLE_Code_1238182%29.JPG] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![EXT SW digital photograph taken 4 September 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2585364] [accessed 7 February 2012]
EXT N digital photograph taken 26 July 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Westfield_%28NHLE_Code_1238182%29.JPG] [accessed 7 February 2013]
PHOTOS digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130512035_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT SW digital photograph taken 4 September 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2585364] [accessed 7 February 2012]
EXT N digital photograph taken 26 July 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Westfield_%28NHLE_Code_1238182%29.JPG] [accessed 7 February 2013]
PHOTOS digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2585364] [accessed 7 February 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover on the left (south) side -- photograph taken from inside the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Westfield/WestfieldStJohnBaptist2004.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06570WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Vicarage Lane/Church Lane, Westfield, East Sussex, TN35 4SD
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 8 km N of Hastings, 10 km E of Battle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Baldslow -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: Similar in style to that at nearby Whatlington
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) does not mention a font in his entry for this originally-Norman church. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 14th-century font is square with sloping sides, similar in style to that at nearby Whatlington". The square basin is plain, cut to octagonal by the chamfered angles; it is raised on a broad central shaft and four slender angle colonnettes [all five modern replacements?] that have foliated capitals and moulded bases on a square lower base and a quadrangular plinth. The wooden cover is of octagonal pyramidal shape, decorated on the lower sides and the arrises, topped by a complex finial with handle-like motifs on two sides; said to be 17th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.908001, 0.572254
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 28.80″ N, 0° 34′ 20.11″ E
UTM: 31U 329320 5642402
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square-to-octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; counterweight pulley
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998