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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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view of font - north side
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06573WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Lewes Road, Westmeston, East Sussex BN6 8RJ
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Loacted off the B2116, S of Ditchling Beacon, 9 km WNW of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Street -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a rudely-constructed circular stone font" in this church. Noted in Hussey (1852) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Walker (1908), who mentions plaster repairs visible on the damaged basin at the time. Harrison (1920) dates it as Norman, but mentions the possibility that it may perhaps be pre-Conquest. Noted in Drummond-Roberts (1935). The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The nave was built soon after 1100, and the original north doorway remains. [...] The font is of 12th-century chalice form." Described in Whiteman (1994) as a chalice-shaped Norman font. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with date of the 12th century. The wooden cover on the fonts is of simple Jacobean style, a round platform with four scroll ribs meeting at an acorn finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.91, -0.1
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 36″ N, 0° 6′ 0″ W
UTM: 30U 703867 5643823
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (chalk clunch)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-10-05 00:00:00. 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. Accessed: 2006-07-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
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
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998