Willingdon

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - 8
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Willingdon/WillingdonStMary2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - north view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font in the centre aisle, far end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Willingdon/WillingdonStMary2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover - southeast side
INFORMATION
FontID: 06577WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church St, Willingdon, East Sussex, BN20 9HT
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Willingdon is now a suburb of Eastbourne, 2 km N of its town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of Roughwood Church Album [wwww.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Harrison (1920) notes a Perpendicular font here that is similar to those at Eastbourne and Jevington, "an elegant example of a purely local type". Described in Whiteman (1994): "The 14th-century square font has Perpendicular arches carved on its base". Richardson (1990) notes a baptismal bowl made of pewter by Edward Randall between 1695 and 1700. The Roughwood Church Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Willingdon/WillingdonStMary2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013] notes: "The cover is from a design of Mr Randell Blacking in commemoration of Blanche Wells (1946)"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.791896, 0.21389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 30.83″ N, 0° 12′ 50″ E
UTM: 31U 303642 5630384
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1946 / 20th century (mid)
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Richardson, John, "A pewter baptismal bowl", 7, 4 (autumn 1990), Journal of the Pewter Society, 1990, pp. 135-138; p. 135-138
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998