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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of font - north side
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06573WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Lewes Road, Westmeston, East Sussex BN6 8RJ
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font: plinth is of a later date
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
UTM: 30U 703867 5643823
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.91, -0.1
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 54′ 36″ N, 0° 6′ 0″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (chalk clunch)
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
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-. 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.
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 103
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 211
- 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. 303
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51391] [accessed 15 March 2007]
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 122
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 175