West Grinstead / Westgrenestede

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design element - architectural - arch or window - round - 16

Scene Description: shallowly incised on the sides of the basin, four per side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/WestGrinstead/WestGrinsteadStGeorge2004.htm]

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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 4

Scene Description: at the corners of the pedestal base

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of basin and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-westg.html] [accessed 26 October 2012]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_George%27s_Church,_West_Grinstead_%28NHLE_Code_1284797%29.JPG] [accessed 26 October 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07261GRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Church Location: West Grinstead, West Sussex RH13 8LR

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B2135, just S of the A272, 6 km NW of Henfield, about 20 km N of Worthing

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of West Grinstead -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside of the church, at the W end of the S aisle, beneath the tower

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] -- 14th-15th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval / composite

Church Notes: "church of ST. GEORGE, so called by 1491" [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]

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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Walker (1908) suggests the font is a composite of two unrelated blocks, the base being from a later font, whereas the present basin was originally intended to be supported on a five-shaft base. Harrison (1920), too, reports the composite character of the font here: "The square font is one ot the West Sussex type, late Nor[man], on Dec[orated] shaft." The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 2, 198) notes: "A church apparently existed at West Grinstead c. 1100. [...] The west part of the north wall of the nave, with herringbone masonry and two roundheaded windows, seems to date from c. 1100 [...] A major restoration was not undertaken until 1890 [...] Medieval fittings include [...] a 12th-century marble font on a later medieval stem". A drawing in Indian ink is listed in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts and plans ... in the British museum (1944, vol. 2: 237) [ref/ [crown] XLII, 44 b]. The Parish web site [http://westgrinstead.org.uk/wp/st-georges/history-st-georges/] [accessed 26 October 2012] notes: "bout the year 1200 the tower was begun [...] he font, at the west end of the tower, may also be from this period, but the cover is recent being made by the local Blacksmith to commemorate Queen Elizabeth 2nd’s coronation in June 1953." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), which identifies the stone of the basin as "Sussex marble". The font consists of a square limestone basin decorated with arcade of four round arches on each side, raised now on a square pedestal base of a late-Medieval [Perpendicular?] date and made of sandstone.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 687226 5650331

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble) [basin] -- sandstone [base]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*

Basin Total Height: 28.5 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 65 x 65 cm*

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1953

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-10-26 00:00:00. 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. Accessed: 2012-10-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920

Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908