North Chapel / Northchapel
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Standing permission
Results: 1 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3024191] [accessed 17 December 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 07378CHA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Northchapel, West Sussex GU28 9HP
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A283, near Ebernoe, 8 km NNW of Petworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration / Stuart
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this church
Church Notes: formerly a chapel-of-ease to Petworth parish but known to have had baptisms and burials in it [source: The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 103, Part 2 (1833: 317)]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a square Restoration baptismal font dated 1662 and made of local Petworth marble. Harrison (1920) gives the same date, obviously from an inscription on it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.055882,
-0.643044
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 3′ 21.17″ N,
0° 38′ 34.96″ W
UTM: 30U 665178 5658682
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble (Petworth)
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920