East Dean nr. Eastbourne No. 2

Results: 2 records

design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - cusped

design element - motifs - floral - ball-flower

Scene Description: over the cusps of the trefoil window

INFORMATION

FontID: 08811DEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Simon and St. Jude
Church Patron Saints: St. Simon & St. Jude
Church Location: Gilberts Drive, East Dean, East Sussex, BN20 0DL
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km WSW of Eastbourne [NB: not to be mistaken with its homonym in West Sussex, also with an entry in this Index]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Location in Church: By the side of the S door
Date: ca. 1350?
Century and Period: 14th century (mid), Decorated
Holy-water stoup described and illustrated in Cox & Harvey (1907): "trefoil-headed niche over a stoup, the cusps being tipped with ball-flower ornament, so characteristic of work of the early part of the 14th cent." Harrison (1920) notes a holy-water "stoup with trefoiled niche, Dec. (c. 1350)".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 302529 5626875

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907