Wiggonholt No. 2
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by Stefan Czapski [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2276275] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2008 by Oxenhillshaw [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiggonholt_Church.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © dmj1962, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by dmj1962 28 April 2008 [www.qype.co.uk/place/140793-Wiggonholt-Parish-Church-Pulborough/photos/183811] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20
Scene Description: the arcade is a modern re-tooling [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1997
Image Source: Digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/wiggo/index.htm]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06576WIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-tooled], Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): [dedication unknown -- Crockford's]
Church Address: Church Lane, Wiggonholt, West Sussex,
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A283, 4 km SSE of Pulborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of West Easwrith -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: recycled ; re-cut ; new base ; re-tooled ; restored
Font Notes:
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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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 676151 5646147
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.94001, -0.4927
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 24.04″ N, 0° 29′ 33.72″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 75 cm^
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: polygonal and almost flat, with a carved and inscribed top, and a metal ring handle
REFERENCES
- 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.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 211
- 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, p. 471
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 75
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 84-86
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 179