Beddingham

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 4

Scene Description: hinted at the angles, rather than clustered

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Beddingham/BeddinghamStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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UB02: design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Beddingham/BeddinghamStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Beddingham/BeddinghamStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Beddingham/BeddinghamStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font and the cover are visible at the west end, behind the south (left) bank of pews

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Beddingham/BeddinghamStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Beddingham/BeddinghamStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07272BED

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Beddingham, East Sussex BN8 6JX

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A26, 5 km ESE of Lewes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, athe SW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Ditto in Harrison (1920). Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Beddingham/BeddinghamStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]. Font of a late-medieval type common in the area, consisting of a plain square basin raised on a broad square pedetals that has hinted angle colonnettes, with cinquefoil arches or windows between them; on a plain splaying lower base, also square. The wooden cover is square and flat, with metal decoration and handle; modern?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.852759, 0.051181

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 9.93″ N, 0° 3′ 4.25″ E

UTM: 31U 292447 5637595

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

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