West Hoathly / Hadlega / Hodlega / Hodlegh / Hogligh / Hothelegh
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2004 in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/WestHoathly/WestHoathlyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Margaret%27s_Church,_West_Hoathly_%28from_Southwest%29.JPG] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Margaret%27s_Church,_West_Hoathly_%28IoE_Code_302844%29.JPG] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2004 in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/WestHoathly/WestHoathlyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2004 in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/WestHoathly/WestHoathlyStMargaret2004.htm] [accessed 14 November 2012]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1997
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 1997 in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/westh/index.htm] [accessed 17 March 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06572HOA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: Church Hill, West Hoathly, West Sussex RH19 4PW
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SSW of East Grinstead, 8-9 km SE of Crawley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buttinghill -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: restored / repaired font
Font Notes:
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Hussey (1852) writes: "The font is mutilated, of Weald marble, probably E[arly] E[nglish]." In Walker (1908) and in Drummond-Roberts (1935). Harrison (1920) reports a square font of the Transitional period, as well as an undated holy-water stoup in this church after the 1870 restoration. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "church of St. Margaret [...] The nave dates from c. 1090 [...] The font is of the end of the 12th century and has a repaired square bowl of Petworth marble, on a cylindrical stem which is surrounded by four modern shafts of Purbeck marble." Described in Whiteman (1994) as a square marble font of the 13th century. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) as a font made of "Sussex or Petworth marble", but pointing out that "the stone of the highly polished angle shafts contains much smaller fossils than the rest of the ensemble and appear to be of Purbeck rather than Sussex marble", and with date "the second half of the 12thc." The CRSBI entry for Heyshott also notes this font as one in a group of "fonts with moulded capitals which form part of a square bowl" [ the group includes Cuckfield, Heyshott, Iford, Ripe, Slindon, West Hoathly and Woodmancote"]. The Parish web site [www.westhoathly.org.uk/History/History.html] [accessed 14 November 2012] informs: "the Font [...] stands near the entrance [...]. Believed to be made in 1180, unusually enough, of paludina limestone, sometimes called Sussex marble or winklestone. The consolidated snail shells, which are visible, became petrified when the Weald was under marsh and water. When polished the stone is decorative: the memorial in the chancel is a good example. The columns supporting the font were restored using Purbeck marble."
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 706241 5662467
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0766, -0.0557
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 4′ 35.76″ N, 0° 3′ 20.52″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone / marble [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 58 x 58 cm8
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain flat square wooden base with ribbed metalwork atop
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.
- 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. 102
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 32
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 128
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 239
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 98
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 174