Hardham
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1766069] [accessed 21 January 2013]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kinnerton, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2010 by Kinnerton [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hardham_St._Botolph%27s_Church_exterior.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Gunns, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2001 by Chris Gunns [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/439398] [accessed 21 January 2013]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1766069] [accessed 21 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 09369HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: Hardham, West Sussex, RH20 1LB
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A29, 2 km SSW of Pulborough, in the Horsham district
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bury -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: exceptional 12thC paintings in this church [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Botolph%27s_Church,_Hardham] [accessed 21 January 2013]
Described in Johnston (1901) as "a plain specimen of fifteenth century work" [source: Philip Mainwaring Johnston's 'Hardham Church, and its Early Paintings', transcribed in http://saxon.sussexchurches.co.uk/hardham.htm]. Harrison (1920), however, reports a plain font here, possibly Norman. Not quite clear why Harrison (ibid.) would think this font as Norman, as it has all the looks of a late-medieval vessel. The plain octagonal basin has a moulded underbowl chamfer; it has been re-lined recently; the pedestal base is octagonal and plain; the moulded lower base is also octagonal; the whole thing stands on a narrow rectangular plinth made of brick and stone. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with a knob handle; it appears modern. [NB: the church dates to Norman or earlier times, but we have no information on the font of the original church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.948551,
-0.522789
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 56′ 54.79″ N,
0° 31′ 22.04″ W
UTM: 30U 674006 5647026
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wooden,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
