Fletching
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Fletching/FletchingChurch2005.htm] [accessed 16 January 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font at the back (west), centre aisle
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Fletching/FletchingChurch2005.htm] [accessed 16 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07260FLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Andrew
Church Address: Cherry Cottages, Fletching, East Sussex TN22 3SP
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A275, 5-6 km W of Uckling, 13 km N of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesde of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Rushmonden -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the Norman font, probably replaced in the 1880s)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Harrison (1920) notes: "Restored in 1880. The church has been over restored, and much of the architectural value has suffered in. consequence. [...] There is a stoup in the nave, and a second one in porch." The present font, a bulbous round basin on a columnar base, is late-19th century. Harrison (ibid.) does not mention a font in the church at his time, which means that the old font had already been replaced, likely during the 1880s restoration, the date of the present font. Cox & Harvey (ibid.) must have had information from an earlier time. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the Norman font here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 291923 5653210
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.992804, 0.034834
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 34.09″ N, 0° 2′ 5.4″ E
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 223
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 112