Bepton / Babintone
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view of font - northeast side
Scene Description: notice the insert repair at the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1645064] [accessed 1 August 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2007 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/363101] [accessed 1 August 2012]
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view of font - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-bepto.html] [accessed 1 August 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07302BEP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW end of the nave, to the left of the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Bepton, West Sussex, GU29 0HX
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km SSW of Midhurst. The church is located off Bugshill Lane
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Easebourne -- formerly Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: re-tooled / restored -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday Book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU8518/bepton/] [accessed 1 August 2012] reports a church in Babintone [Bepton]. The font is noted in Walker (1908). Harrison (1920) reports it as massive Norman and restored. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "Of the building mentioned in Domesday Book [...] nothing now remains; it seems that in the 13th century a completely new church of chancel, nave, and tower was built [...] The font and fittings are modern" [cf. infra]. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "A plain lead-lined tub (cylindrical) font with an integral cylindrical stem and plinth, raised on a square plinth of later date. There are broad chamfers at the base of the bowl and top of the plinth; the rim is slightly chamfered. The surface bears vertical chisel marks. A repair on the E side of the rim indicates the removal of a lock." The CRSBI entry (ibid.) further notes: "According to the VCH, the font is modern: this seems unlikely". The RootsWeb site [www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com] notes: "Within the church is an ancient font which a mason was allowed at the last restoration to re-tool and make to look as new as possible". The present shape includes a short stem and a circular lower base but those are probably the work of the restorer who did the re-tooling of the whole font as well; the font was probably a plain round tub originally. It is now mounted on a modern quadrangular plinth.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 655618 5647439
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.957527, -0.784167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 27.1″ N, 0° 47′ 3″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 61.5 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 92.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 62
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p, 44-45