Wiggonholt No. 2

In his entry for this place Lewis (1831) notes: "The church is small, and remarkable only for its curious Norman font. The font is noted in Walker (1908). Harrison (1920) writes: "This little restored church (E[arly] E[nglish]) has a square late Nor[man] font of Sussex marble". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) with a group of Norman-period fonts on which "the arcading is rather rudely represented by a succession of shallow sunk panels with semicircular heads [...] the only adornment" of the basin. Described in Whiteman (1994): "The large Sussex marble font is square and has well-preserved arcading on the bowl, a typical Norman form of decoration". The Historic Churches Preservation Trust notes: "the font is Late Norman & is made of Sussex marble" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk] Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) as a heavily restored font of a "large group of arcaded Sussex marble fonts, which were produced throughout the area in the late 12thc." This same source also notes that the present pedestal base is a modern replacement of the five-support usually found in this group.