Playden / Pleidena

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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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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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07275PLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Rectory Lane, Playden, East Sussex TN31 7PH
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, by the S arcade
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.962629, 0.733077
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 45.46″ N, 0° 43′ 59.08″ E
UTM: 31U 341323 5648920

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