Portslade / Portes Ladda / Porteslage / Portislade
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicolas_Church,_Portslade_01.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle
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Image Source: digital photograph in A Church Near You [www.achurchnearyou.com/album.php?V=5102] [accessed 6 December 2012]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archbishops' Council, Church of England, 2010
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07276POR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin altered], Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [aka St. Nicolas']
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S pillar of the tower arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: South Street, Portslade, East Sussex, BN41 2LE
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in Southwick, just W of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Half-hundred of Fishersgate -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC here) -- altered font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Harrison (1920) reports the base of the font here as Perpendicular, but says nothing about the rest of it. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The tithes of Portslade were confirmed to the priory of Lewes by Ralph, Bishop of Chichester (1091–1123), [...] and the church was confirmed to them by Bishop Seffrid II about 1187. [...] the nave and south aisle are of the late 12th century [...] The font is plain, and of 15thcentury origin, but the bowl has been renewed. It is octagonal, with foliated panels to the shaft and a spreading base of simple form. [NB: we have no information on the font from the earlier church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 695840 5636065
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8431, -0.2182
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 35.16″ N, 0° 13′ 5.52″ W
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; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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