Wiston nr, Steyning / Wistanestun
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 16
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06578WIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael [aka St. Mary's] [now a chapel of ease to Buncton]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael [St. Mary]
Church Notes: "The church of St. Michael, of which the dedication is recorded in 1327" [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes] -- Wiston and Buncton have reversed the former relationship (now, 2012, Wiston is a chapelry of Buncton, whereas it used to be the other way earlier)
Church Address: Mouse Lane (Off A283), Wiston, West Sussex,
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A283, 5 km NW of Steyning, by Wiston Park
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Steyning -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font (base is a later replacement)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Walker (1908) and in Drummond-Roberts (1935). Harrison (1920) writes: "Font, old, Sussex marble on modern base." The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1980) notes: "There was a church at Wiston in 1086 [...] The nave is of the 13th century or earlier. The chancel was rebuilt and the chapel, aisle, and tower added, in the 14th century. Much of the church's present appearance, however, is due to an extensive mid-19th-century restoration [...] The Norman font is square and of Sussex marble." Described in Whiteman (1994) as "a font with a well-preserved Norman bowl". Described and illustrated in th CRSBI (2008), which notes: "there are holes, caused by the removal of staples, in the SW and NE spandrels. There is a mend on the NW angle, and the sides are cracked in several places: this has contributed to the irregularity of the dimensions listed below. The font has a Victorian (?) freestone plinth but mouldings on the bottom of the bowl show that it would have stood on four angle shafts and a fat central shaft originally."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 684583 5643783
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 92.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 56-57 x 56-57 cm*
LID INFORMATION
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. 35
- Redding, Cyrus, An illustrated itinerary of the County of Lancaster, London: How and Parsons, Fleet Street, 1842, p. 216
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 93
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 182