Playden / Pleidena
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1925981] [accessed 31 January 2013]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1925975] [accessed 31 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1925975] [accessed 31 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07275PLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, by the S arcade
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Rectory Lane, Playden, East Sussex TN31 7PH
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A268, 2 km NW of Rye, 20 km ENE of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goldspur -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one form the original 12thC-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The font consists of a plain octagonal basin raised on a stem decorated with arches on the sides. Noted in Harrison (1920) as Perpendicular, but the building itself dating back to ca. 1175. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-13th century church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 341323 5648920
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.962629, 0.733077
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 45.46″ N, 0° 43′ 59.08″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern
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. 163