West Wittering
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: detail from an illustration from the 1790s in The Gentleman's Magazine (1803)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2005 by Brendan and Ruth McCartney [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Wittering_Parish_Church.jpg]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: detail from an illustration from the 1790s in The Gentleman's Magazine (1803)
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view of font
Scene Description: the font in the 1790s, raised on a square plinth
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Image Source: detail from an illustration from the 1790s in The Gentleman's Magazine (1803)
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view of font
Scene Description: the font in 1998
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI visited 9 September 1998 [http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/x-large.php?uid=44306&sos=2]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2008 by katypix.co.uk [http://www.katypix.co.uk/main.php?g2_itemId=9025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06574WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Pound Rd, West Wittering, West Sussex, PO208AJ
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2179, 11 km SW of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chirchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Manhood [aka La Manwode/Manwood] [previously in the Hundred of Westringes?] -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by one of the pillars of the arcade that separates the nave from the S aisle, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Bignor, Brighton, Penton, etc., are fonts of similar overall shape in this county
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Katy, of katypix.co.uk, for her potograph of this font
Font Notes:
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A 10 April 1803 letter to the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of April 1803: 313) notes and illustrates the font and other details of this church; the font is shown on a square plinth, different from the one it stands on at present [cf. infra]. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a very fine Norman font of cylindrical form" in this church. Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is circular, but rude"; and in Kelly's Directory of 1867: "ancient Norman font." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of several tub-shaped baptismal fonts of the Norman period in this county. Harrison (1920) reports a Norman font in this church. Noted also in the Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953), with date of the 12th century. Described in Whiteman (1994) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the 12th century. Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland(2008), the material "of oolitic limestone". The basin has repairs at opposite sides of the upper rim, probably related to the removal of font-cover hardware. The tub basin is mounted on a round base of multiple blocks, and is raised on a wide circular plinth; it is located behind (west) a pillar of the arcade that separates the nave from the south aisle, by the south doorway.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 648351 5627543
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Oolite)
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 11 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*
Basin Total Height: 52.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 52.5 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 98 cm* [including modern plinth]
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: conical wooden cover; decorated with carved arrises and knob finial; appears Victorian
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-26 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.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
Kelly, Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1867
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
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998