Withyham / Withiam
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view of font and cover
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inscription
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 December 2010 by Andy Hibberd [www.totally-cuckoo.com/11.12.10%20Withyham%20-%20Old%20Lodge%20-%20Coleman%27s%20Hatch.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 December 2010 by Andy Hibberd [www.totally-cuckoo.com/11.12.10%20Withyham%20-%20Old%20Lodge%20-%20Coleman%27s%20Hatch.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy Hibberd, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 December 2010 by Andy Hibberd [www.totally-cuckoo.com/11.12.10%20Withyham%20-%20Old%20Lodge%20-%20Coleman%27s%20Hatch.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Brooker, 2006
Image Source: digital photograoh taken December 2006 by David Brooker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/456458] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: in 1873
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Image Source: 1783 watercolour of 'Withyham Church and Parsonage' by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Withyham_Church_and_Parsonage_by_Samuel_Hieronymus_Grimm_1783.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy Hibberd, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 December 2010 by Andy Hibberd [www.totally-cuckoo.com/11.12.10%20Withyham%20-%20Old%20Lodge%20-%20Coleman%27s%20Hatch.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy Hibberd, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 December 2010 by Andy Hibberd [www.totally-cuckoo.com/11.12.10%20Withyham%20-%20Old%20Lodge%20-%20Coleman%27s%20Hatch.htm] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06579WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1666
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Notes: The medieval church and its contents were practically destroyed by lightning in 1663 (Whiteman, 1994: 182)
Church Address: Withyham, East Sussex, TN7 4BA
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B2110, 11 km SW of Tubridge Wells, 13-14 km EES of East Grinstead
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Hartfield -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) writes: "The greater part of this church was destroyed by hghtning in 1663 and rebuilt in 1672. Part of tower and S[outh] doorway
are 12th c. [...] Font, 1666"; he further notes that the church was restored in 1841-1864. Sackville-West (1857) notes and illustrates a baptismal font in this church, but does not suggest a date for the font [NB: the illustration includes a cross formerly from Sanqueville, Normandy, but the font must be the 17th-century one mentioned below -- 'Sanqueville' may be the original Norman name of the local Sackville lineage]. Described in Whiteman (1994) as an octagonal font dated 1666. It probably replaced the original at this church after the 1663 destruction of the medieval church by lightning.
are 12th c. [...] Font, 1666"; he further notes that the church was restored in 1841-1864. Sackville-West (1857) notes and illustrates a baptismal font in this church, but does not suggest a date for the font [NB: the illustration includes a cross formerly from Sanqueville, Normandy, but the font must be the 17th-century one mentioned below -- 'Sanqueville' may be the original Norman name of the local Sackville lineage]. Described in Whiteman (1994) as an octagonal font dated 1666. It probably replaced the original at this church after the 1663 destruction of the medieval church by lightning.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Andy Hibberd - Sussex Scrapbook [www.totally-cuckoo.com], for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 299179 5664827
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.099717, 0.131653
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 5′ 58.98″ N, 0° 7′ 53.95″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Text: "16 / 66"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: low pyramidal octagonal, with Latin cross finial
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 217
- Sackville-West, Reginald Windsor, Historical notices of the parish of Withyham in the County of Sussex, with a description of the church and Sackville chapel, London; Tunbridge Wells: John Russell Smith; William Nash, 1857
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 182